Tuscola County is a county in the Thumb region of the U.S. state of Michigan. As of the 2020 census,the population was 53,323. The county seat is Caro. The county was created by Michigan Law on April 1,1840,from land in Sanilac County and attached to Saginaw County for administrative purposes. The Michigan Legislature passed an act on March 2,1850,that empowered the county residents to organize governmental functions.
Caro is a city in and the county seat of Tuscola County,Michigan,United States. The population was 4,328 at the 2020 census and 4,145 at the 2000 census.
Cass City is a village in Elkland Township,Tuscola County in the Flint/Tri-Cities area of the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 2,428 at the 2010 U.S. Census and 2,643 at the 2000 U.S. Census. It is located along M-81 approximately four miles (6.4 km) west of that highway's intersection with M-53. Cass City is surrounded by several communities including Colwood,Deford,Elmwood and Ellington.
Tuscola Township is a civil township of Tuscola County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 2,082 at the 2010 Census.
Nicholas Hart Smith is a retired American politician from the U.S. state of Michigan,who served as a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives from 1993 until 2005,representing from the 7th District of Michigan.
Robert McClelland was a US statesman,serving as U.S. Representative from Michigan,the ninth governor of Michigan,and United States Secretary of the Interior.
John Stewart Barry was the fourth and eighth governor of Michigan. He was Michigan's only three-term governor in the 19th century. His main accomplishment was to rationalize state finances after the state's internal improvements fiasco.
The Thumb is a region and a peninsula of the U.S. state of Michigan,so named because the Lower Peninsula is shaped like a mitten. The Thumb area is generally considered to be in the Central Michigan region,east of the Tri-Cities and north of Metro Detroit. The region is also branded as the Blue Water Area.
David Demerest Aitken was an American politician who served two terms as a U.S. Representative from the state of Michigan from 1893 to 1897. He also served as mayor of Flint,Michigan.
John Treadway Rich was an American politician serving as a U.S. Representative and the 23rd governor of Michigan.
Mark Spencer Brewer was an American lawyer and politician from the U.S. state of Michigan who served four terms over two different stints in Congress between 1877 and 1891.
James Grant O'Hara was a soldier and politician from the U.S. state of Michigan,serving as U.S. Representative from 1959 to 1977.
The Cass River is a 61.5-mile-long (99.0 km) river in the Thumb region of the U.S. state of Michigan. It drains large portions of Sanilac and Tuscola counties and smaller portions of Genesee,Huron,Lapeer,and Saginaw counties.
Michigan's 7th congressional district is a United States congressional district in Southern Michigan and portions of Central Michigan. From 2004 to 2013 it consisted of all of Branch,Eaton,Hillsdale,Jackson,and Lenawee counties,and included most of Calhoun and a large portion of western and northern Washtenaw counties. The current district,which was created in 2022,is centered around Lansing,Michigan's state capital,and includes all of Clinton,Shiawassee,Ingham,and Livingston counties,as well as portions of Eaton and Oakland counties.
John C. Dayton was a Michigan politician.
Deford is an unincorporated community in Tuscola County in the U.S. state of Michigan,located along Bruce/Deckerville Road west of the intersection with Kingston Road,north of Kingston and south of Cass City in the southeast corner of Novesta Township. The Deford Post Office with ZIP code 48729 serves the southern portion of the township as well as the northern portion of Kingston Township and areas in the northeast corner of Wells Township.
Allison R. Green was a Republican politician from Michigan who served in the Michigan House of Representatives,and as its Speaker during the 72nd Legislature. He was also appointed by Governor George Romney as Michigan's state treasurer in 1965,retiring from that position in 1978 as the longest-serving treasurer in Michigan history.
Fred B. Wells (1861–1932) was a Republican politician from Michigan who served in the Michigan House of Representatives from 1915 through 1926. He served as Speaker of the House during the 53rd Legislature.
James Kirk (1879-1957) was a Republican member of the Michigan House of Representatives.
John Caldwell was a nineteenth-century farmer and timber man of northern Michigan,associated with Missaukee County,Michigan. He was employed for several years by the Mitchell Brothers Company,a land agent firm in several states,dealing with large tracts of timber for making lumber. He homesteaded 100 acres,and had a diversified system of farming that proved successful.
