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Public Servants
Granger has no city government, so its public servants are the township, county, school-district, statehouse and federal officers who hold this ground. The banked Government leg rostered those bodies at current strength, as of 11 November 2026.
The council as an institution, and its long servers
CREATED 1899 · FIRST ELECTED NOVEMBER 1900 · LONG-SERVER RECORD AS OF NOVEMBER 2026
The County Council is younger than the county by seventy years, and its origin explains its shape. Until 1899 the boards of county commissioners exercised the county's fiscal powers essentially unchecked; the County Reform Act…
The type case at full length: Larry Beehler, forty years an elected trustee
ELECTED JULY 1986 · IN OFFICE AS OF NOVEMBER 2026 · TERM RUNS TO 2030
Larry Beehler is the Madison Township member of the Penn-Harris-Madison Board of School Trustees, the elected board that governs schooling for most of Granger, and he has sat on it, consecutively, for forty years. The…
The clerk's desk and the auditor's desk: the anchors of two successions
ANCHORS 1841–2027 · RESIDUE NAMED BELOW
The open record anchors both successions at dated points; the spans between the anchors are named as gaps at this article's end, not filled by assertion.
The appointed machinery named: plan commission, zoning appeals, drainage board
ROSTERS AS OF NOVEMBER 2026
It is the Area Plan Commission of St. Joseph County: since the City of South Bend withdrew on December 1, 2019, to form its own plan commission, the county commission's jurisdiction is the unincorporated county and its member…
The prosecutors in succession, 1979–2027
FIVE HOLDERS, FORTY-EIGHT YEARS · EARLIER LINE NAMED AS GAP
The modern line in fact runs whole, in five holders. Michael Phillip Barnes was elected prosecutor in 1978 and served twenty years, 1979 to 1998: he started the Adult Protective Services program in 1985, founded the CASIE…
The county's firsts, tested office by office
TESTED NOVEMBER 2026 · UNTESTED OFFICES NAMED, NOT ASSERTED
First woman, Auditor — settled. Beverly Delores (Munger) Crone first sought elective office in 1979, was elected a South Bend councilwoman-at-large and re-elected in 1983, then left the council to fill a vacancy in the St. Joseph…
The statehouse line: this ground's people in Indianapolis
DISTRICTS AS THEY COVER THE GROUND · HOLDERS AS OF NOVEMBER 2026
This ground sends its people to Indianapolis through two district seats, and both are currently — and unusually — held by Granger's own residents. The Senate seat is District 11, covering portions of St. Joseph and Elkhart…
The federal line, in two runs
1855–2026 · SECOND RUN AS OF NOVEMBER 2026
Run one, the founding generation, is a boundary run and prints at boundary size: the seat that held this county ground in Congress was South Bend's, and its holder was Schuyler Colfax — appointed the county's deputy auditor in…
The federal bench from this ground
SEARCHED NOVEMBER 2026 · NEGATIVE AS PRINTED
The checklist asks for the federal judge from this city — the Grant pattern — carried separately from the congressional line. The search was run whole, and the result is negative for this ground. The Federal Judicial Center's…