History of El Dorado County Board of Supervisors
1855 to Present
Supervisorial District I
1855
Henry Robinson
1855 - 1856
John Kirk
1856 - 1857
John M. Dorsey
1857 - 1860
A. A. Howard
1860 - 1863
George W. Swan
1863 - 1866
J. C. McTarnahan
1866 - 1872
Thomas Fraser
1872 - 1876
H. B. Newell
1876 - 1882
Thomas Hardie
1882 - 1883
Henry Mahler
1884 - 1888
George W. Barlow
1888 - 1892
A. W. Lowry
1892 - 1896
Leonard Reeg
1896 - 1904
Michael Mayer
1904 - 1912
Marshall Hughes
1912 - 1924
James S. Creighton
1924 - 1946
Peter John Hall
1946 - 1948
John A. Winkelman
1949 - 1952
Mervyn E. Hensley
1953 - 1955
John A. Winkelman
1956 - 1964
John M Caswell
1965 - 1968
Joseph Rozone
1969 - 1972
John M. Caswell
1973 - 1976
Franklin K. Lane
1977 - 1980
N. Arliene Todd
1981 - 1993
Robert E. Dorr
1993 - 2001
William “Sam” Bradley
2001 - 2009
Rusty Dupray
2009 -
John Knight
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History of El Dorado County Board of Supervisors
1855 to Present
Supervisorial District 2
1855
Alexander H. Hawley
2001 – 2009
Helen K. Baumann
1855 - 1856
Alexander Irving
2009 -
Ray Nutting
1856 - 1857
A. F. Lee
1857 - 1858
William Knox
1858 - 1862
E. N. Strout
1862 - 1865
William E. Riebsam
1866 - 1868
Julius D. Jackson
1869 - 1870
C. D. Brooke
1871 - 1875
Walter Miles
1876 - 1877
James H. Miller
1878 - 1879
Walter Miles
1880
A. J. Adams
1881 - 1882
Seth Loveless
1883 - 1884
William H. Kramp
1885 - 1888
Solomon Long
1889 - 1892
Seth Loveless
1893 - 1897
S. D. Salisbury
1897 - 1904
W. W. Hoyt
1905 - 1912
J. N. Jones
1913 - 1920
John Wall
1921 - 1924
C. H. Schroeder
1925 - 1932
Lyman A. Bender
1933 - 1940
Charles E. Green
1940 - 1947
Rolland R. Gust
1948 - 1951
Bliss K. Harper
1951 - 1956
George H. Klare
1957 - 1960
Hiram F. Walker
1961 – 1964
John D’Agostini
1965 - 1968
Hiram F. Walker
1969 - 1980
William V. D. Johnson
1981 - 1990
Patricia R. Lowe
12/1990 - 1992 Vernon Gerwer
1993 - 2001
Ray Nutting
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History of El Dorado County Board of Supervisors
1855 to Present
Supervisorial District 3
1885
Thomas M. Reed
1855 – 1857
R. E. Draper
1857
Charles B. Ferguson
1858 - 1861
William Jarbine
1861 - 1864
Zadock Pierce
1866 - 1867
O. H. Burnham
1868 - 1869
Daniel Jerrett
1870 - 1873
Isaac P. Jackson
1874 - 1878
George W. Parsons
1879 - 1880
D. W. C. Benjamin
1881 - 1882
A. A Bayley
1883 - 1884
G. H. Roelke
1885 - 1888
R. W. H. Swendt
1889 - 1892
Frank Miller
1893 - 1900
Nathaniel Porter
1901 - 1904
G. M. Carsten
1905
Nathaniel Porter
1905 - 1906
Hiram E. Barton
1907 - 1912
E. W. Smith
1913 - 1920
John C. Akin
1921 - 1932
W.S. Biggs
1933 - 1934
John C. Akin
1934 - 1956
Cyril H. Heusner
1957 - 1964
Jack M. Wallace
1965 - 1968
Wesley C. Worrell
1969 - 1972
Thomas M. Goodloe
1973 - 1984
William P. Walker
1985 - 1993
James R. “Jack” Sweeney
1993 - 2001
J. Mark Nielsen
2001 - 2003
Carl Borelli
2003
James R. “Jack” Sweeney
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History of El Dorado County Board of Supervisors
1855 to Present
Supervisorial District 4
1885 - 1890
A. T. Leachman
1891 - 1894
Robert McKay
1895 - 1896
A. T. Leachman
1897
A. J. Mahler
1897 - 1898
Francis Nicholls
1899 - 1910
S.D. Diehl
1911 - 1918
John J. Bayne
1919 - 1934
John B. Wagner
1935 - 1938
Dan M. Bassi
1939 - 1950
Carl Niegel
1950 - 1965
Eugene A. Chappie
1965 - 1975
Raymond E. Lawyer
1975 - 1978
Lloyd R. Kutter
1979 - 1987
Joseph V. Flynn
1987 - May 1989
Michael C. Visman
1989 - 1991
Eugene A. Chappie
1991 - 1995
William N. Center
1995 - 1999
Walter L. Shultz
1999 - 2003
Penny Humphreys
2004 - 2006
Charlie Paine
2007 -
Ron Briggs
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History of El Dorado County Board of Supervisors
1855 to Present
Supervisorial District 5
1885 - 1894
Lewis Bryant
1895 - 1902
George H. Heuser
1903 - 1906
P. J. Stanton
1907 - 1910
George H. Heuser
1911 - 1926
Peter F. Morgan
1927 - 1934
Dwight E. Douglas
1935 - 1950
William H. Breedlove
1951 - 1954
Andrew G. Robertson
1955 - 1966
Raymond G. Chism
1967 - 1970
Gerald E. Martin
1971 - 1987
Thomas L. Stewart
1987 - 1991
John N. Cefalu
1991 - 1999
John Upton
1999 - 2005
David A. Solaro
2005
Norma Santiago
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History of El Dorado County
El Dorado County – Incorporated February 18, 1850
Re: County Seat of El Dorado County
Page 189 – Order of Election for May 17, 1856
Page 201 – Result of Election: Coloma for County Seat 7413
Placerville for County Seat 5895
County Seat at Coloma from 1850 to April 1, 1857
Volume – Minute Book “B” ( 1857)
• Page 151 November 2, 1857: “met in Courthouse in
Placerville”
• Page 78 Examine location for courthouse at Stoney Point on
Main Street (be location?)
• Page 73 Board members authorized to move records from
Coloma to Placerville
• Page 69 – Placerville to be County Seat on April 1, 1857 by
“An Act to Establish the County Seat of El Dorado County
(evidently an Act of the State Legislature)
ec 40706
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