Michigan Geological Survey
List of State Geologists

Michigan Geological Survey

Section Title: List of State Geologists
Table Section Text: None

Portrait	Name	Post	Took office	Left office	Division	Ref(s)

-	Douglass Houghton	State Geologist	1837	1845 (death)	First Geological Survey

Office suspended (1845–1859)

-	Alexander Winchell	State Geologist	March 9, 1859	1862	Second Geological Survey

Office suspended (1862–1869)

-	Alexander Winchell	State Geologist	April 24, 1869	April 17, 1871	Third Geological Survey Michigan Geological and Biological Survey

Carl Rominger	State Geologist	1871	1885	Third Geological Survey Michigan Geological and Biological Survey

Charles E. Wright	State Geologist	1885	1888 (death)	Third Geological Survey Michigan Geological and Biological Survey

-	Marshman E. Wadsworth	State Geologist	1888	1893	Third Geological Survey Michigan Geological and Biological Survey

-	Lucius L. Hubbard	State Geologist	July 3, 1893	1899	Third Geological Survey Michigan Geological and Biological Survey

-	Alfred Church Lane	State Geologist	1899	1909	Third Geological Survey Michigan Geological and Biological Survey

Roland C. Allen	State Geologist	1909	1919	Third Geological Survey Michigan Geological and Biological Survey

Richard A. Smith	State Geologist	1919	1920	Third Geological Survey Michigan Geological and Biological Survey

Richard A. Smith	Division Chief and State Geologist	1920	1946	Third Geological Survey Geological Survey Division, Department of Conservation

Gerald E. Eddy	Division Chief and State Geologist	1946	1951	Third Geological Survey Geological Survey Division, Department of Conservation

Franklin G. Pardee	Division Chief and State Geologist	1951	1952	Third Geological Survey Geological Survey Division, Department of Conservation

William L. Daoust	Acting State Geologist	1952	1954	Third Geological Survey Geological Survey Division, Department of Conservation

William L. Daoust	Division Chief and State Geologist	1954	1964	Third Geological Survey Geological Survey Division, Department of Conservation

Gerald E. Eddy	State Geologist	1964	1971	Third Geological Survey Geological Survey Division, Department of Natural Resources

Arthur E. Slaughter	State Geologist	1971	1976	Third Geological Survey Geological Survey Division, Department of Natural Resources

Arthur E. Slaughter	State Geologist	1976	1977	Third Geological Survey Division of Geology, Department of Natural Resources

Arthur E. Slaughter	State Geologist	1977	1981	Third Geological Survey Geological Survey Division, Department of Natural Resources

R. Thomas Segall	State Geologist	1981	1996	Third Geological Survey Geological Survey Division, Department of Natural Resources

Harold R. Fitch	State Geologist	1996	2002	Third Geological Survey Geological Survey Division, Department of Environmental Quality

Harold R. Fitch	State Geologist	2002	2004	Third Geological Survey Geological and Land Management Division, Department of Environmental Quality

Harold R. Fitch	State Geologist	2004	2011	Third Geological Survey Office of Geological Survey, Department of Environmental Quality

Alan E. Kehew	Director	2011	2013	Third Geological Survey WMU Department of Geosciences

John A. Yellich	Director	2013	—	Third Geological Survey WMU Department of Geosciences

Sentence(s)

In 1919, Allen resigned and Richard A. Smith became State Geologist in Michigan Geological Survey.

final_sentence: In 1919, Allen resigned and Richard A. Smith became State Geologist in Michigan Geological Survey.