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Appendix B:
Superintendents
During the summer seasons of 1891 through 1913
Sequoia and General Grant national parks were supervised by military
officers assigned by the War Department. Each of these officers received
the title of "Acting Superintendent of Sequoia and General Grant
National Parks" from the secretary of the interior. Generally, these
appointments began in May and expired in October. Beginning in 1900
civilian rangers served as "Park Ranger in Charge" during the remainder
of the year. After 1912, the civilian officer in charge of the parks
during the winter also took the title "Acting Superintendent." The first
formally designated "Superintendent" took charge of the parks in 1914
after the War Department discontinued its park protection program at
Sequoia and General Grant. In 1933 the Superintendency of General Grant
National Park was separated from that of Sequoia National Park. In 1940,
when Kings Canyon National Park came into being, it too, functioned
initially as a separate park with a separate superintendent. In 1943, as
a war time economy measure, the two superintendencies were merged.
Since that date the two parks have been administered
jointly.
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Acting Superintendents Under The War
Department
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| CAPTAIN JOSEPH H. DORST, | 1891, 1892 |
| CAPTAIN JAMES PARKER, | 1893 |
| LIEUTENANT ALEXANDER TRACY DEAN, | 1984 |
| CAPTAIN JAMES LOCKETT, | 1895 |
| CAPTAIN GEORGE HENRY GOODWIN, | 1896, 1897 |
| GEORGE LANGENBERG (CIVILIAN APPOINTEE IN LIEU OF MILITARY PERSONNEL DURING SPANISH AMERICAN WAR), | 1898 |
| CAPTAIN BENNENT X. SMITH, | 1898 (REPLACED LANGENBERG LATE IN SEASON) |
| LIEUTENANT JAMES ALFRED MOSS, | 1899 |
| SECOND LIEUTENANT HENRY BENJAMIN CLARK, | 1899 |
| CAPTAIN FRANK WEST, | 1900 |
| ERNEST BRITTEN, (WINTER) RANGER IN CHARGE, | 1900—1904 |
| CAPTAIN LINCOLN CLARKE ANDREWS, | 1901 |
| CAPTAIN FRANK ARTHUR BARTON, | 1902 |
| LIEUTENANT GEORGE BLANCHARD COMPLY, | 1902 |
| CAPTAIN CHARLES YOUNG, | 1903 |
| CAPTAIN LESTER WARREN CORNISH, | 1903 |
| CAPTAIN GEORGE FRENCH HAMILTON, | 1904 |
| CAPTAIN JOHN O'SHEA, | 1905 |
| WALTER FRY (WINTER) RANGER IN CHARGE, | 1905—1912 |
| CAPTAIN KIRBY WALKER, 1906, | 1907 |
| CAPTAIN CORNELIUS COLE SMITH, | 1908, 1909 |
| CAPTAIN EDMUND SEHON WRIGHT, | 1910 |
| CAPTAIN JAMES BRYAN HUGHES, | 1911 |
| CAPTAIN WALTER MONTEITH WHITMAN, | 1912 |
| CAPTAIN DOUGLAS MCCASKEY, | 1913 |
| LIEUTENANT HUGH S. JOHNSON, | 1913 |
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Superintendents and Acting Superintendents of
Sequoia National Park Under The Department of the Interior Prior To
October 1, 1943
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| WALTER FRY, (ACTING) | 3/20/12—7/1/14 |
| WALTER FRY, | 7/1/14—7/14/20 |
| JOHN ROBERTS WHITE, | 7/14/20—1/1/39 |
| EIVIND T. SCOYEN, | 1/1/39—7/15/41 |
| JOHN ROBERTS WHITE, | 7/15/41—10/1/43 |
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Superintendents and Actings Superintendents of
General Grant National Park Prior to March 4, 1940
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| JOHN ROBERTS WHITE, (ACTING), | 7/15/20—3/15/33 |
| GUY HOPPING, (ACTING), | 3/15/33—10/16/36 |
| GUY HOPPING, | 10/16/36—3/4/40 |
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Superintendents and Acting Superintendents of Kings
Canyon National Park Prior To October 1, 1943
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| GUY HOPPING, (ACTING), | 3/4/40—3/15/40 |
| EIVIND T. SCOYEN, | 7/16/41—10/1/43 |
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Superintendents and Acting Superintendents of
Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks
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| JOHN ROBERTS WHITE, | 10/1/43—10/10/47 |
| EIVIND T. SCOYEN, | 11/23/47—1/16/56 |
| GEORGE A. WALKER, (ACTING), | 1/16/56—5/6/56 |
| THOMAS J. ALLEN, | 5/6/56—11/1/59 |
| JOHN M. DAVIS, | 11/1/59—2/27/66 |
| FRANK KOWSKI, | 3/13/66—9/24/67 |
| JOHN S. MCLAUGHLIN, | 10/8/67—11/25/72 |
| HENRY G. SCHMIDT, | 11/26/72—7/31/75 |
| GENE V. DAUGHERTY (ACTING), | 7/31/75—10/30/75 |
| STANLEY T. ALBRIGHT, | 10/31/75—9/11/77 |
| DAVID D. THOMPSON, JR., | 10/9/77—3/31/80 |
| JAMES J. MCLAUGHLIN (ACTING), | 4/1/80—8/9/80 |
| QUINCY BOYD EVISON, | 8/10/80—8/3/85 |
| JOHN H. DAVIS, | 9/29/85—1/14/89 |
| J. THOMAS RITTER, | 1/15/89— |
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