- Police/Fire - Janesville Sesquicentennial
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- Janesville has had 20 chiefs or marshals
- There have been 29 police chiefs or marshals in Janesville's
150-year history. Here's a list:
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- 1853: W. F. TOMPKINS; W. H. HOWARD, William
MacLOON
- 1854: Charles YATES
- 1855: Thomas C. SLEEPER
- 1857: John L. D. EYCLESHIMER
- 1858-1866: None
- 1867: C. G. GILLETT
- 1868: Edmund HILL
- 1869: C. M. HEIMSTREET
- 1870: A. K. CUTTS
- 1871: None
- 1872: Nicholas CROTZENBERG
- 1874: M. H. KEATING
- 1879: Alex M. RUSSELL
- 1880: Alex M. RUSSELL; Edward SMITH; John W.
HOGAN
- 1890: Theodore ACHESON
- 1897: John W. HOGAN, first police chief
- 1905: John COMSTOCK; William APPLEBY
- 1908: George APPLEBY
- 1913: Ensign RANSOM
- 1914: Peter CHAMPION
- 1919: William GOWER; Thomas MORRISY
- 1919: Thomas MORRISY
- 1921: Charles NEWMAN
- 1937: William H. FORD
- 1944: Jasper WEBB
- 1968: Murray COCHRAN
- 1975: Kenneth JONES
- 1979: Ray VOELKER, current police chief
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