W. Ward Yeager
W. Ward Yeager was superintendent at Crater Lake from April 1, 1961, to April 11, 1964. Yeager began his Park Service career in 1928 as a ranger at Yellowstone National Park.
Subsequently, he had tours of duty as a park ranger at Lassen Volcanic National Park, chief ranger at Kings Canyon and Mount Rainier national parks; assistant forester and assistant superintendent at Mesa Verde National Park; assistant superintendent at Lake Mead National Recreation Area; associate forester in the NPS Region Three Office at Santa Fe, New Mexico; and assistant superintendent at Grand Teton National Park.
He retired from federal service in 1964. [Administrative History of Crater Lake NP]
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- Superintendents – William Frank Arant, 1902-1913
- Superintendents – William Gladstone Steel, 1913-1916
- Superintendents – Henry E. Momyer, 1916-1917
- Superintendents – Alex Sparrow, 1917-1923
- Superintendents – Charles Goff Thomson, 1923-1929
- Superintendents – Elbert C. Solinsky, 1929 – 1934
- Superintendents – David H. Canfield, 1934 – 1937
- Superintendents – Ernest P. Leavitt, 1937 – 1952
- Superintendents – John P. Wosky, 1952 – 1953
- Superintendents – Fred T. Johnson, 1953 – 1954
- Superintendents – Thomas J. Williams, 1954 – 1959
- Superintendents – Otto M. Brown, 1959 – 1961
- Superintendents – Richard A. Nelson, 1964 – 1965
- Superintendents – J. Leonard Volz, 1965 – 1967
- Superintendents – Donald M. Spalding, 1967 – 1969
- Superintendents – Einar L. Johnson, 1970 – 1973
- Superintendents – Richard H. Sims, 1973 – 1975
- Superintendents – Frank J. Betts, 1975 – 1978
- Superintendents – James S. Rouse, 1978 – 1984
- Superintendents – Robert E. Benton, 1984 – 1991
- Superintendents – Al Hendricks, 1991 – 1998
- Superintendents – Chuck Lundy, 1998 – 2008
- Superintendents – Craig Ackerman, 2008 –
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