DNR - Political and Miscellaneous Occupations

These politicians and persons in other occupations have associations with Michigan, but were not born here.

Name	Michigan Connection	Birthplace	Date
Richard H. Austin	Michigan's Secretary of State, 1971-1995; delegate to 1961 MI Constitutional Convention; state's first black Certified Public Accountant (CPA)	Stouts Mountain, Alabama	1913-2001
Henry Walton Bibb	Escaped slave and abolitionist lecturer; agent for the Raisin Institute; author of Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Henry Bibb, an American Slave (1849); lived in Detroit from 1842 to 1850(?)	Shelby County, KY	1815-1854
Frederic Baraga	Missionary, author, 1st Catholic bishop of the Diocese of Upper Michigan	Dobernig, Slovenia (Austria)	1797-1868
Lewis Cass	Governor of MI Territory (1813-1831), U.S. Senator from MI (1845-1857); Presidential candidate 1848	Exeter, NH	1782-1866
Robert Cavelier (Sieur de La Salle)	Explorer	France	1643-1687
Zachariah Chandler	Detroit mayor (1851-52), U.S. Senator from MI 1857-75	Bedford, NH	1813-1879
Rev. Charles E. Coughlin	Activist Catholic Priest and radio broadcaster in Detroit	Ontario, Canada	1891-1979
James Couzens	Automobile manufacturer, Detroit mayor (1919-22), U.S. Senator (1922-36)	Canada	1872-1936
Brigadier General George Armstrong Custer	Army officer, lived in Monroe	Ohio	1839-1876
Antoine de la Mothe (Sieur de Cadillac)	Founded Detroit 1701	France	1660-1730
Horatio S. Earle (State Archives Photo)	Came to Detroit 1889; State Senator (1901-1902); 1st State Highway Commissioner (1903-1909)	Mount Holly, VT	1855-1935
Woodbridge N. Ferris	Governor (1913-1916), U.S. Senator from MI (1923-29)	Spencer, Tioga County, NY	1853-1928
Gerald R. Ford (Leslie King Jr.)	U.S. President (1974-77); grew up in Grand Rapids	Omaha, NE	1913-2006
Martha Griffiths	Michigan's lieutenant governor (1982-90); 10-term U.S. House member; led the fight to pass the Equal Rights Amendment in Congress and added language banning sex discrimination in the 1964 Civil Rights Act	Pierce City, Missouri	1912-2003
Philip A. Hart	Lt. Governor (1955-1958); U. S. Senator (1959-1976)	Bryn Maur, Pennsylvania	1912-1976
Laura Smith Haviland	Abolitionist, lived in Raisin Township	Ontario, Canada	1808-1898
Douglass Houghton	Geologist, physician and surgeon, Detroit mayor (1842-43)	New York	1809-1843
Louis Joliet	Explorer	Quebec, Canada	1645-1700
Jacques Marquette	Explorer, Jesuit missionary	France	1637-1675
Rosa Parks	Seamstress; "Mother of the Civil Rights Movement"; moved to Detroit in 1957; received Congressional Gold Medal (June 15, 1999)	Tuskegee, AL	1913-2005
Gabriel Richard (Detroit News article)	Sulpician missionary, educator; printed first newspaper in Michigan, 1809; territorial delegate to Congress (1823-1825)	France	1767-1832
Fannie Richards	Detroit's first black teacher and first kindergarten teacher; cofounded Phillis Wheatley Home for Aged Colored Ladies	Fredericksburg, VA	1840-1922
Henry Rowe Schoolcraft	Geologist with Cass expedition in 1820; appointed Indian agent at Sault Ste. Marie in 1822; served in Michigan Territorial Legislature (4th Legislative Council, 1830-1831	Albany, NY (near)	1793-1864
Sojourner Truth (Isabella Baumfree)	Abolitionist, moved to Battle Creek in 1856, buried there	New York	1797?-1883
Malcom X (Malcolm Little)	Civil Rights activist, lived in Lansing as a youth	Nebraska	1925-1965
Coleman Young	Delegate to 1961 MI Constitutional Convention; Detroit's first Black mayor, serving from 1974 to 1994	Tuscaloosa, AL	1918-1997

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