List of Commissioners of the General Land Office

The General Land Office was an independent agency of the United States government responsible for public domain lands in the United States. It was created in 1812, and it merged with the United States Grazing Service in 1946 to become the Bureau of Land Management. The official in charge of the agency was called the Commissioner of the General Land Office, appointed by the President and confirmed by the Senate.

Commissioner	Image	Date of Commission	Residence	Notes
Edward Tiffin		May 7, 1812	Ohio	[1][2][3]
Josiah Meigs		October 11, 1814	Georgia	[1][2][3]
John McLean		September 11, 1822	Ohio	[1][2][3]
George Graham		June 26, 1823	District of Columbia	[1][2][3]
Elijah Hayward		September 30, 1830	Ohio	[1][2][3]
Ethan Allen Brown		July 24, 1835	Ohio	[1][2][3]
James Whitcomb		October 21, 1836	Indiana	[1][2][3]
Elisha Mills Huntington		July 2 or 3, 1841	New York	[1][2][3]
Thomas H. Blake		May 19, 1842	Indiana	[1][2][3]
James Shields		April 16, 1845	Illinois	[1][2][3]
Richard M. Young		January 6, 1847	Illinois	[1][2][3]
Justin Butterfield		July 1, 1849	Illinois	[1][2][3]
John Wilson		September 16, 1852	District of Columbia	[1][2][3]
Thomas A. Hendricks		August 8, 1855	Indiana	[1][2][3]
Samuel Axley Smith		October 13, 1859	Tennessee	[1][2][3]
Joseph S. Wilson		February 23, 1860	District of Columbia	[1][2][3]
James M. Edmunds		March 16 or 19, 1861	Michigan	[1][2][3]
Joseph S. Wilson		September 1, 1866	District of Columbia	[1][2][3]
Willis Drummond		February 4, 1871	Iowa	[1][2][3]
Samuel S. Burdett		July 1, 1874	Missouri	[1][2][3]
James A. Williamson		June 24, 1876	Iowa	[1][2][3]
Noah C. McFarland		June 17, 1881	Kansas	[1][3]
William A. J. Sparks		March 26, 1885	Illinois	[1][3]
Strother M. Stockslager		March 27, 1888	Indiana	[1]
Lewis A. Groff		September 16, 1889	Nebraska	[1]
Thomas Henry Carter		March 31, 1891	Montana	[1]
William M. Stone		November 18, 1892	Iowa	[1]
Silas W. Lamoreaux		March 28, 1893	Wisconsin	[1]
Binger Hermann		March 25, 1897	Oregon	[1]
William A. Richards		January 26, 1903	Wyoming	[1]
Richard Achilles Ballinger		January 28, 1907	Washington	[1]
Fred Dennett		January 14, 1908	North Dakota	[1]
Clay Tallman		June 5, 1913	Nevada	[1]
William Spry		March 22, 1921	Utah	[1]
Charles C. Moore		May 9, 1929	Idaho	[1]
Fred W. Johnson[4]		May 20, 1933	Wyoming	[1]

References

1. White, C. Albert; Bureau of Land Management. A history of the rectangular survey system. Government Printing Office. p. 194.
2. Williamson, James A.; Donaldson, Thomas (1880). The Public Domain. Its History, with Statistics. Government Printing Office. p. 166.
3. Lanman, Charles (1887). Biographical annals of the civil government of the United States. New York: J M Morrison. p. lxxxii.
4. Johnson became first director of the Bureau of Land Management in 1946