Supervisors of the Town of Alexandria

From the Town Historian's Office

All the early records for the Town of Alexandria are lost, but it is known that James Shurtliff was the first town supervisor; Ashley Tanner, assessor; and Allen Cole and Joel Parker inspectors of elections. The following is a list of supervisors from the organization of the town, as given in Hough's 1854 History of Jefferson County, supplemented by Hazel McMane, Town Historian.

DATE	SUPERVISOR
1822	JAMES SHURTLIFF
1829	JOHN D. DAVIDSON
1833-5	JASON CLARK
1836	J.D. DAVIDSON
1837	J. CLARK
1838	JOHN W. FULLER
1839-40	MICHAEL LEWIS
1841	*ALEXANDER SALISBURY
1842	J. CLARK
1843-9	HARVEY D. PARKER
1850	GEORGE W. CLARK
1851	MOSES JEWETT
1852	H.D. PARKER
1853-4	ANDREW CORNWALL
1855	JASON CLARK
1856	JASON CLARK
1857	JASON CLARK
1858-9	WM. W. BUTTERFIELD
1860	ANDREW CORNWALL
1861	WM. BUTTERFIELD
1862-5	A. CORNWALL
1866	W.W. BUTTERFIELD
1867	EBENEZER CAMPBELL
1868	M.J. HUTCHINS
1869	E. CAMPBELL
1870-2	WM. H. THOMPSON
1873-4	NEWTON RAND
1875-7	A.A. HOLMES
1878-80	R. GURNEE
1881-3	A.C. CORNWALL
1884	T.B. MARSHALL
1885-7	A. BICKLEHAUPT
1888	A.C. CORNWALL
1889-93	E.T. HOLMES
1894-97	W.M. THOMPSON
1898-1901	ADAM BICKLEHAUPT
1907	HERBERT H. HOWE
1908-13	FULLER F. CORNWALL
1914
1915	CLARK A. VAN BROCKLIN
1916
1917-20	RALPH REID
1921-23	RALPH REID
1924
1925
1926
1927	WM. PLIMPTON
1928-29	FRANK JEWETT
1930-33	WM. PLIMPTON
1934-39	ROSS PARKER
1940-1945	J. LOWELL FITZSIMMONS

*at a special meeting in May J. Clark

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