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STATE TREASURER. FRANK E. GORMAN,
Was born at Forester, Sanilac county, Michigan, March 28, 1874, of Scotch-Irish parents, and has always lived in Michigan. He acquired his education in the public schools of
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Sanilac county and various summer normals. After leaving school he taught in the public schools of Sanilac county for eight years, and during this time served one year as postmaster at Forester. Mr. Gorman was married September 29, 1898, to Clara L. Jenkins and has one daughter, Marguerite Jean. He is a Mason, an Elk, a member of Lansing Commandery, and Elf Kurafeh Temple. He has always been a Republican. He entered the state treasurer's office in April, 1906, as bookkeeper, and was promoted to cashier in 1909, and appointed deputy state treasurer January 1, 1913, which position he held until May 22, 1919, when he was appointed state treasurer by Governor Albert E. Sleeper. Mr. Gorman is affiliated with the Capital National Bank of Lansing, being a director and cashier of that institution. He was nominated for state treasurer at the Republican convention at Saginaw in 1920 and was elected November 2, 1920, by a vote of 756,111 to 236,559 for Frank J. Sawyer; 23,060 for Uno S. Grant; 7,766 for Frank E. Titus; 2,483 for Thos. S. Corbett; 9,849 for Clara Gramer and 2,487 for Uno S. Heggeblom.
AUDITOR GENERAL. ORAMEL B. FULLER,
Of Ford River, Delta county, was born at Jersey City, N. J., January 22, 1858, coming to Michigan in 1869. He received his education in the public schools of Lansing and Muskegon, to which latter city he removed in 1874. He removed to Ford River, Delta county, his present home, in 1884. Mr. Fuller was married to Miss Jenne L. Van Zalingen, of Muskegon, in 1887. He is a Mason, member of Escanaba Commandery, Ahmed Temple of the Shrine at Marquette, DeWitt Clinton Consistory, Grand Rapids, and is also a member of the Knights of Pythias and the Elks. He represented the Delta district, composed of the counties of Alger, Delta and Schoolcraft, in the house in 1893, 1895 and 1897; was speaker pro tem. of the house in 1897. He represented the thirtieth senatorial district, composed of the counties of Chippewa, Delta, Luce, Mackinac, Menominee and Schoolcraft, in the senate in 1901, 1903 and 1907 and was president pro tem. of the senate in 1903. He was supervisor of Ford River township for ten years, but resigned when he was elected auditor general in 1908 and is at present prominently connected with many business enterprises of Escanaba. He has always been a Repub- lican. At the Republican convention held at Saginaw, September 23, 1920, Mr. Fuller was nominated for a seventh term, and at the election held on November 2, 1920, was elected by a plurality of 525,078.
ATTORNEY GENERAL. MERLIN WILEY,
Of Sault Ste. Marie, was born at Shepherd, Isabella county, Michigan, May 7, 1875. He was educated in the Sault Ste. Marie high school, Albion College and the University of Michigan, graduating from the literary department of the latter institution in 1902, and from the law department in 1904. Since that time he has practiced law in Sault Ste. Marie, and is now the senior member of the firm of Wiley & Green. Mr. Wiley is married and has two children, a boy and a girl. He is a Republican and was elected prosecuting attorney in 1909. He served in the legislatures of 1915-16, 1917-18, and 1919-20. He was elected to the office of attorney general, November 2, 1920, by a vote of 753,990 to 236,753 for Walter I. Mckenzie; 25,577 for M. C. Brown; 2,334 for Ferdinand Horvath; 9,983 for Edward J. Anderson.
STATE HIGHWAY COMMISSIONER. FRANK FOSTER ROGERS,
Of Lansing, was born in Raisin township, Lenawee county, Michigan, August 30, 1858, acquiring his early education in the rural schools of Lenawee county. He later attended
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the Raisin Valley Seminary and in the fall of 1879 entered the Michigan Agricultural College, from which he graduated in 1883, receiving the degree of B. S. and later the degree of C. E. After graduation, Mr. Rogers located at Marlette, Sanilac county, where he followed the profession of surveying and civil engineering until 1890, when he removed to Port Huron and continued the same work. He was married at Marlette to Ada A. Lee, daughter of the late Rev. S. P. Lee. He resided at Port Huron until 1905, when he removed to Lansing, having been appointed deputy state highway com- missioner when the department was first organized July 1, 1905. He served as city engineer of Port Huron for four terms,-from 1891 to 1899. He served as deputy state highway commissioner under Commissioners Horatio S. Earle and Townsend A. Ely, succeeding the latter to the present office, having been elected April 7, 1913. He was re-elected April 2, 1917, and was elected for a third term April 4, 1921, by a vote of 440,155 to 118,392 for Cornelius Gerber.
SUPERINTENDENT OF PUBLIC INSTRUCTION. THOMAS EDWARD JOHNSON,
Of Coldwater, was born near Thetford, Ontario, March 10, 1883, and removed to Michi- gan with his parents when he was six years of age. His father is a Methodist minister and has held numerous charges throughout the eastern part of the state. Mr. Johnson received his education in the public schools, graduating from the Flint high school in 1900. After teaching country schools for a time he entered the University of Michigan but left there in his second year, and later completed his college work at Alma College, where he received the degree of A. B. He has been superintendent of schools at Mont- rose, Dryden, Stockbridge, Onaway and Coldwater. In addition to his school work he has been active in civic, religious and fraternal affairs, and is a member of several Masonic bodies, the B. P. O. E., and K. of P. Mr. Johnson was married August 7, 1907, to Mildred M, Milks, of Saginaw county. He has two children, a son, Stanley H., and a daughter, Patricia H. On September 12, 1917, he was appointed by Governor Sleeper a member of the state board of education to succeed Thomas W. Nadal, resigned; and on April 5, 1919, he was appointed by Governor Sleeper to fill the vacancy in the " office of Superintendent of Public Instruction caused by the death of Fred L. Keeler, which occurred April 4, 1919. The Republican state central committee, on April 4, 1919, substituted the name of Mr. Johnson for that of Mr. Keeler as candidate for the office of Superintendent of Public Instruction for the term ending June 30, 1921. Mr. Johnson was elected April 7, 1919, and re-elected April 4, 1921, by a vote of 439,980 to 121,416 for Mary L. Hinsdale.
MEMBERS OF THE STATE BOARD OF EDUCATION. ALLEN M. FREELAND, [Term expires June 30, 1923.]
Of Grand Rapids, was born on a farm near Caledonia, Kent county, Michigan, March 18, 1872, of English parentage. His early education was obtained in the rural schools* Later he attended Valparaiso University, of Valparaiso, Indiana, from which institution he received the degree of B. S. He then entered Hope College at Holland, Michigan, where he was given the degree of B. A. He began teaching a district school at the age of seventeen and has been engaged in that profession ever since. : From 1898 to 1907 he was superintendent of the South Grand Rapids schools, and, during this period, conducted summer schools for teachers. He also served four years as member of the Kent county board of school examiners. For the past fourteen years he has been com- missioner of schools of Kent county. While serving as commissioner he has been an instructor for several summer terms in the Western State Normal School at Kalamazoo. He has also studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1916. Mr. Freeland was married to Bertha L. Dean, of Grand Rapids, in 1897, and has one child. He is a 32nd degree Mason, being a member of the DeWitt Clinton Consistory and Saladin Temple Shrine.
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He was appointed a member of the State Board of Education by Governor Albert E. Sleeper, April 23, 1919, to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Thomas E. Johnson.
FRANK CODY,
[Term expires June 30, 1925.]
Of Detroit, was born at Belleville, Wayne county, Michigan, December 31, 1870, and received his elementary education in the public schools of that county. After graduating from high school he taught in the schools of his native village for three years. He then entered the State Normal College at Ypsilanti, and in 1891 was appointed superinten- dent of the Delray schools, holding that position until Delray was annexed to Detroit in 1907, when he was appointed to the principalship of the Detroit McMillan high school. In 1914 he was made assistant superintendent of the Detroit public schools, and in April, 1919, was appointed acting superintendent. On June 26, 1919, the appointment was made permanent. He served for a number of years as treasurer of the Detroit Teachers' Association and president of the Detroit Schoolmen's Club. In 1893, he organized the night school for Detroit newsboys and was its principal for five years. Later he was elected president of the Detroit Newsboys' Association. In 1895, he was elected a mem- ber of the Wayne county board of school examiners, holding the office until 1907. He is a Knight Templar and 32nd degree Mason and also a member of the I. O. O. F. and K. of P. Mr. Cody is married and has three children. At the Republican state con- vention held at Lansing, February 11, 1913, he was nominated for member of the State Board of Education and was elected April 7, 1913. He was re-elected April 7, 1919, by a vote of 511,349 to 217,192 for Josephine Fitzgerald; 23,674 for Adrian Mount and 28,815 for Ruth Y. Johnston.
FREDERICK ALBERT JEFFERS, [Term expires June 30, 1927.]
Of Painesdale, was born at Farmington, Ohio, July 24, 1869. He was taken, when an infant, to Connecticut, where he was left an orphan at five years of age. He came to Jackson county, Michigan, in 1875, where, in the township of Napoleon, he received his elementary education. He taught school on the border of Jackson and Washtenaw counties; attended Michigan State Normal College at Ypsilanti, from which he graduated in 1891 and from which he later received the degree of master of pedagogics. After graduation he went to Atlantic Mine as superintendent of the Adams township schools which position he has held for thirty years, living for the past twelve years at Paines- dale, where the new township high school is located. He has been a school examiner for Houghton county for twenty-five years; was an instructor in the summer schools of the Northern State Normal School for more than ten years, teaching history, civics, public school administration and other subjects. He has also done institute work, besides filling most of the offices of the Upper Peninsula Educational Association, including that of president. Mr. Jeffers is married. He has been prominent in fraternal circles and is a 33rd degree Mason. He was elected a member of the State Board of Education April 5, 1915, and re-elected April 4, 1921, by a plurality of 315,840.
MEMBERS OF THE BOARD OF REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY. JUNIUS EMERY BEAL,
[Term expires December 31, 1923.]
Of Ann Arbor, was born at Port Huron, St. Clair county, Michigan, February 23, 1860, of American parentage, his ancestors having come to America with the Puritans in 1638. His education was obtained in the public schools of Ann Arbor and the University of Michigan, being given a degree from the latter institution in 1882. During his college
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days he was managing editor of "The Chronicle." He was engaged in the printing and publishing business in Ann Arbor for twenty years, was manager of the Port Huron Gas Company ten years, and has been of later years connected with the Ann Arbor Electric Light Company and the Ann Arbor & Ypsilanti Railroad. He was a member of the Ann Arbor school board for twenty years. He has always been a Republican and was one of the presidential electors in 1888. Mr. Beal is married and has two children, a son and a daughter. He was elected to the legislature in 1904, serving in the 1905-06 session. He has been a member of the Public Domain Commission since 1908. He was elected a member of the Board of Regents of the University in April, 1907, and re-elected in 1915 by a plurality of 138,976.
FRANK BRUCE LELAND, [Term expires December 31, 1923.]
Of Detroit, was born in Rose township, Oakland county, Michigan, in 1859. He secured his higher education in the Fenton high school and the University of Michi- gan, receiving the degree of B. L. from the latter institution. After graduating from the university he practiced law ten years when he became general manager of the National Loan and Investment Company, of Detroit, which position he held seven years. For the past eighteen years he has been president of the United Savings Bank of Detroit, of which he was the organizer. He was elected a member of the Board of Regents of the University in April, 1907, and was re-elected in 1915 by a plurality of 142,024.
JAMES ORIN MURFIN, [Term expires December 31, 1925.]
Of Detroit, was born at Portsmouth, Ohio, January 7, 1875, and was educated in the public schools of that city, graduating from the high school in 1891. He immediately entered the University of Michigan, and graduated from the literary department in 1895. The next year he graduated from the law department of the State University and began the practice of law in Detroit. Later he became a member of the firm of Bowen, Douglas, Whiting & Murfin. He was elected state senator in 1900 from the second district and served throughout the session of 1901-1902. In 1908 he was appointed circuit judge of the third circuit to fill a vacancy and the next year was elected to the same office but resigned in 1911, since which time he has been practicing law in Detroit. He was elected a member of the Board of Regents of the University in April, 1917, by a plurality of 120,143.
WILLIAM LAWRENCE CLEMENTS, [Term expires December 31, 1925.]
Of Bay City, was born April 1, 1861, at Ann Arbor, Washtenaw county, Michigan, of Scotch-English parents. He was educated in the public schools of Ann Arbor and at the University of Michigan, graduating from the latter institution with the degree of B. S. in 1882. He entered the employ of the Industrial Works, at Bay City, Michigan, as engineer but was soon promoted to the position of superintendent and manager. In 1896 he became president of that organization, which office he still holds. He has been president of the First National Bank of Bay City, and of the Bay County Savings Bank since 1914. He is a member of the American Antiquarian Society and of the American Historical Society, and in 1916 was appointed a member of the Michigan Historical Commission. He was first elected member of the Board of Regents of the University in 1909 and was re-elected April 2, 1917, for the term ending December 31, 1925.
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BENJAMIN SAWTELLE HANCHETT, [Term expires December 31, 1927.]
Of Grand Rapids, was born at Grand Rapids, Michigan, October 1, 1868, and has always lived in that city. He was educated in the public schools, after which he entered the employ of the Street Railway Company of Grand Rapids as office boy. He has remained with the same concern ever since, although the name of the company is now the Grand Rapids Traction System, and of which he is now president and general manager. In 1900-1901 he built the Grand Rapids, Holland and Lake Michigan Railway, which was the first interurban line operated in western Michigan, and for a time was president of that company. Mr. Hanchett was married in 1897 and has one son and one daughter. He served as president of the village of East Grand Rapids for three successive terms, and was elected a member of the Board of Regents of the University in April, 1911. On April 13, the same year, he was appointed regent to fill the unexpired term of Judge Loyal E. Knappen, who had resigned. He was re-elected April 7, 1919, by a plurality of 287,772.
LUCIUS LEE HUBBARD, [Term expires December 31, 1927.]
Of Houghton, was born at Cincinnati, Ohio, August 7, 1849, of English descent. He was educated in the Woodward high school, of Cincinnati, Phillips' Exeter Academy, Harvard College, Boston Law School and the University of Bonn, receiving the degree of Ph. D. from the latter institution in 1886. He was instructor in minerology in the Michigan College of Mines from 1891-93, state geologist from 1893-99, and a member of the board of control of the Michigan School of Miles from 1905-17. He is a member of the Geo- logical Society of America and is the author of two books, and several papers on mineral- ogy and geology. He was married in 1875 to Frances Johnson Lambard, of Augusta, Maine. He was elected a member of the Board of Regents of the University in 1911, and re-elected April 7, 1919, by a plurality of 282,336.
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VICTOR M. GORE, [Term expires December 31, 1929.]
Of Benton Harbor, was born September 29, 1858, at Plainview, Illinois, of English parentage. He was educated in the public schools and at Blackburn University, at Carlinville, Illinois, and at the University of Michigan, receiving the degree of B. L. from the latter institution in 1882. He has devoted himself exclusively to the practice of law since that time. He has served twenty-one years as a member of the board of education, and was a member of the constitutional convention of 1907-08. Mr. Gore is married and has four children, two daughters and two sons. He was elected a member of the Board of Regents of the University in April, 1913, for the term ending December 31, 1921, and re-elected April 4, 1921, by a plurality of 309,251.
WALTER HULME SAWYER, [Term expires December 31, 1929.]
Of Hillsdale, was born in Lyme township, Huron county, Ohio, August 10, 1861. He received his high school training in the Grass Lake, Jackson county, high school, after which he entered the medical department of the University of Michigan, graduating from that institution in 1884. He has been practicing medicine and surgery in Hillsdale since that time. He has been a member of the school board since 1890 and a trustee of Hillsdale College since 1896. He was a member of the Republican state central committee from 1894 to 1898, and served on the State Board of Registration in Medicine from 1901 to 1906. He was president of the Michigan State Medical Society in 1913. Heis Michi-
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gan member of the legislative council of the American Medical Association, fellow of the American College of Surgeons, member of the state committee of national defense, and a member of the state executive committee of the Volunteer Medical Service Corps. He was active in war work and acted as contract surgeon for the United States Army for a short time in 1918. Dr. Sawyer was married to Harriet Belle Mitchell, of Hillsdale, Michigan, in 1888, and has one son. He was elected a member of the Board of Regents of the University in April, 1905 and 1913 and was again re-elected April 4, 1921, by a plurality of 312,531.
MEMBERS OF THE STATE BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. JOHN W. BEAUMONT,
[Term expires December 31, 1923.]
Of Detroit, was born at Elizabeth, New Jersey, July 20, 1858, of English parentage. He attended the Michigan Agricultural College, from which institution he graduated in 1882. Since August, 1886, he has been engaged in the practice of law at Detroit. Mr. Beaumont is married, and has resided in Michigan since 1875. He served in the Spanish- American war on board the U. S. S. Yosemite. Mr. Beaumont was elected a member of the state board of agriculture April 3, 1911, and re-elected April 2, 1917, by a plurality of 116, 685.
JASON WOODMAN,
[Term expires December 31, 1923.]
Of Paw Paw, was born in Paw Paw, Van Buren county, Michigan, in 1860, of New England parentage. He was educated in the public schools and the Michigan Agricul- tural College, from which institution he graduated in 1881. He was lecturer of the Michigan State Grange for eight years, and served as chairman of the Van Buren Repub- lican county committee for several years. He was also a member of the state senate during the sessions of 1903 and 1905. Mr. Woodman is married. At the election held on April 3, 1911, he was elected a member of the state board of agriculture and re-elected April 2, 1917, by a plurality of 116,104.
DORA HALL STOCKMAN, [Term expires December 31, 1925.]
Of Lansing, the first woman to hold an elective office in Michigan, was born in a log cabin at Marilla, Manistee county, Michigan, August 4, 1872, of American parents. She received her education in the public schools of Benzonia, Benzie county, Benzonia College, and Hillsdale College. She taught school three years, the last one at Hillsdale College, and has a teacher's life certificate given her by the state board of education. She was married in 1889 to F. M. Stockman, who was operating a farm near Benzonia. In 1903 they bought the "Grand River View Farm", a short distance northwest of Lan- sing, and have succeeded in building up what was at the time a "worn out" place. Mrs. Stockman is well known throughout the state as a lecturer on agricultural subjects, having been one of the State Grange speakers for the past ten years. In 1914 she was elected lecturer of the Michigan State Grange, which office she still holds. In addition to the rearing of three children, all boys, Mrs. Stockman has found time, outside her other numerous duties, to do considerable literary work and has three books to her credit. In recognition of her work along agricultural lines she was nominated on the Republican ticket as candidate for the office of member of the state board of agriculture and was elected April 7, 1919, by a plurality of 288,447.
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L. WHITNEY WATKINS,
[Term expires December 31, 1925.]
Of Manchester, was born August 6, 1873, at Norvell, Jackson county, Michigan, on the farm on which he now resides. His father, Hon. Lucius D. Watkins, was a pioneer settier and a leader in the development of general farming and livestock husbandry in Michigan. Mr. Watkins attended the district school until he was fifteen years of age, when he entered the Michigan Agricultural College, from which institution he received the degree of B. S. in 1893. He was married to Grace Edith Alley, of Dexter, Michigan, in 1899, and has four children, one daughter and three sons. He is a charter member of the Michigan Academy of Science, the Michigan Ornithological Club and of the Audubon Society. He served as deputy state game and fish warden from 1896 to 1898 when he was appointed by Governor Pingree as member of the state board of agriculture, which office he held from 1899 to 1905. He served as state senator in the legislatures of 1909-10 and 1911-12, and was candidate for governor on the National Progressive ticket in 1912, He has been a director of the West Michigan Fair, vice president of the State Fair Asso- ciation, president of the State Association of Farmers' Clubs, the Michigan Improved Livestock Breeders' Clubs, the Jackson County Farm Bureau and the Michigan Crop Improvement Association. He is also a director of the Peoples Bank of Manchester. He was nominated as one of the Republican candidates for the office of member of the state board of agriculture and was elected April 7, 1919, by a plurality of 288,769.
JOHN A. DOELLE, [Term expires December 31, 1927.]
Of Marquette, was born on a farm at Yale, St. Clair county, Michigan, February 10, 1878, and was the thirteenth and youngest of his father's family. He worked on the farm, doing all the various kinds of work incident to pioneer farm life. Later he gradu- ated from the University of Michigan after which he took up teaching, his first position being principal of Benton Harbor school. Going from there to Houghton, he became superintendent of schools, and foreseeing the possibilities of the upper peninsula as an agricultural district, he conceived the idea of inaugurating agriculture into the public schools, and was instrumental in establishing the first agricultural school in the state, at Otter Lake. In 1917 he took active charge of the war industries resources committee in the upper peninsula, with offices at Ishpeming, after which he was made secretary of the Upper Peninsula Development Bureau. He was elected member of the state board of agriculture April 4, 1921, by a plurality of 311,581.
MELVILLE B. McPHERSON, [Term expires December 31, 1927.]
Of Lowell, was born in Vergennes township, Kent county, December 11, 1876, and is of Scotch descent. He was educated in the public schools of Lowell and the Grand Rapids Business College. After teaching school for two years he took up farming, in which occupation he has since been engaged. He has held office as member of the school board, township treasurer and supervisor. He was elected member of state board of agriculture April 4, 1921, by a plurality of 312,717.
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