Park Superintendents

National Park Service Director Stephen Mather and Superintendent Thomas Ferris at the nearby Belleview Well, October 1921.

National Park Service Historic Photograph Collection (HPC-000833)

Park Superintendents are responsible for the administration and management of individual park units.

The earliest superintendents of Platt National Park were appointed by, and answered to, the Secretary of the Interior. After 1916, park superintendents were career professionals with the newly established National Park Service.

 

1902-1903	Frank C. Churchill (Indian Service Inspector)
1903-1907	Joseph F. Swords
1907-1909	Albert R. Greene
1909-1913	William J. French
1913-1919	R. A. Sneed
1919-1923	Thomas Ferris
1923-1925	Robert G. Morris
1925	Forest L. Carter
1925-1926	William E. Branch
1926-1930	King Crippen
1930-1944	William E. Branch
1944-1951	Thomas Cal Miller
1951-1954	Perry E. Brown
1954-1956	William Supernaugh
1956-1960	William E. Branch
1961-1963	Johnwill Faris
1963-1964	Paul M. Steel
1964-1967	Donald M. Spalding
1967-1971	Jack E. Stark
1971-1979	John Higgins
1979-1981	Paul V. Wykart
1981-1988	John D. Linahan
1988-1994	Robert W. Peters
1994-1995	Pat McCrary
1995-1997	John Welch
1998-2001	Gerard Baker
2001-2003	Rick Shireman
2003-2006	Connie Rudd
2006-2015	Bruce Noble
2015-	William Wright