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# Elected Officials
https://grafton-county.com/elected-officials/
| **County Officials** | 2025 | 2024 |
| -------------------- | ---------------------- | ---------------------- |
| Register of Probate | | [[Chuck Townsend]] |
| High Sheriff | [[Jillian Myers]] | [[Jeff Stiegler]] |
| Register of Deeds | [[Kelley Monahan]] | [[Kelley Monahan]] |
| Attorney | [[Martha Ann Hornick]] | [[Martha Ann Hornick]] |
| Treasurer | Michael J. Cryans | [[Karen Liot Hill]] |
| Commissioner | Wendy A. Piper | [[Martha S. McLeod]] |
| Commissioner | [[Martha S. McLeod]] | |
| Commissioner | Katie Wood Hedberg | |
| | | |
| **State Officials** | 2025 | 2024 |
| ------------------- | ---------------- | -------------------- |
| Governor | [[Kelly Ayotte]] | [[Chris Sununu]] |
| Senator | | [[Carrie Gendreau]] |
| Representative | | [[David Rochefort]] |
| Representative | | [[Linda Massimilla]] |
| Representative | | [[Matthew Simon]] |
| **Federal Officials** | 2025 | 2024 |
| --------------------- | ------------------------ | ------------------------ |
| President | [[Donald J. Trump]] | [[Joseph R. Biden]] |
| VP | [[JD Vance]] | [[Kamala D. Harris]] |
| Senator | [[Jeanne Shaheen]] | [[Jeanne Shaheen]] |
| Senator | [[Margaret Wood Hassan]] | [[Margaret Wood Hassan]] |
| Representative | [[Maggie Goodlander]] | [[Ann Kuster]] |
# Overview
Grafton County was an original county when [[New Hampshire]] was created in 1769. North Haverhill is the county seat, a part of Haverhill.
Like Coös County, Grafton covers nearly one fifth of the state. It was one of the five original counties established in 1769, and was comprised of all of the current Grafton and Coös Counties until 1803.
Named for [[Augustus Henry Fitzroy]], Duke of Grafton. Shire towns are [[Plymouth]] and [[Haverhill]]. It had nineteen towns in 1773 and now has thirty-nine.
[Grafton County New Hampshire](https://www.co.grafton.nh.us/)
[Grafton County Commissioners Meeting Minutes](https://grafton-county.com/meeting-minutes/)
[Grafton County](https://www.nhes.nh.gov/elmi/products/cp/documents/grafton-cp.pdf) 
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Grafton County occupies the west central border of the state, halfway between north and south. It is separated from Vermont by an 89 mile stretch of the Connecticut River.
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The first Justices were [[John Hurd]], [[Asa Porter]], [[David Hobart]], and [[Bezaleel Woodward]], and the clerk was [[John Fenton]].
### County Government
Counties perform services which work best when designed to meet local needs which are too expensive or too difficult for the towns themselves to provide.
County government has an executive branch consisting of three elected County Commissioners who jointly serve as the County’s chief executive, and four elected department heads: the County Attorney, Sheriff, Register of Deeds, and Treasurer.
[Click Here](https://grafton-county.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/Organizational-Chart-2021-Full-Size.pdf) to view the Grafton County organizational chart.
County elections are held every two years during even-numbered years. Commissioners are elected from individual districts, while the other four officials are elected countywide.
The legislative branch of county government consists of all State Representatives from the county (27 in Grafton County); this is called the County Legislative Delegation; this Delegation adopts an annual county budget which raises revenues and appropriates funds for county departments and programs.
Grafton County has a budget of appropriate $48,740,211 for Fiscal Year 2022 with $26,972,066 to be raised by property taxes.
The Delegation elects an Executive Committee of nine members which meets with the Commissioners regularly to review the County’s financial reports.
Counties were originally organized to provide regional courts at convenient locations throughout the State so that people would not have to travel to the Portsmouth or Exeter for court business.
Since 1984, the State of New Hampshire has funded a Unified Court System, but most counties maintain courthouses which they rent to the State. The Grafton County Courthouse, located on Dartmouth College Highway in North Haverhill, houses the Grafton County Superior and Circuit Courts
[[Alexandria]]
[[Ashland]]
[[Bath]]
[[Benton]]
[[Bridgewater]]
[[Campton]]
[[Canaan]]
[[Dorchester]]
[[Easton]]
[[Ellsworth]]
[[Enfield]]
[[Grafton]]
[[Groton]]
[[Hanover]]
[[Hebron]]
[[Holderness]]
[[Landaff]]
[[Lebanon]]
[[Lincoln]]
[[Livermore]]
[[Lyman]]
[[Lyme]]
[[Monroe]]
[[Orange]]
[[Orford]]
[[Piermont]]
[[Rumney]]
[[Sugar Hill]]
[[Thornton]]
[[Warren]]
[[Waterville Valley]]
[[Wentworth]]
[[Woodstock]]