Edward Spencer Abraham is an American attorney,author,and politician who served as the 10th United States Secretary of Energy from 2001 to 2005,under President George W. Bush. A member of the Republican Party,he previously served as a United States Senator from Michigan from 1995 to 2001. Abraham is one of the founders of the Federalist Society,and a co-founder of the Harvard Journal of Law &Public Policy. As of 2024,he is the last Republican to have served as a U.S. senator from Michigan.
Lewis Cass was a United States Army officer and politician. He represented Michigan in the United States Senate and served in the Cabinets of two U.S. Presidents,Andrew Jackson and James Buchanan. He was also the 1848 Democratic presidential nominee. A slave owner himself,he was a leading spokesman for the doctrine of popular sovereignty,which at the time held the idea that people in each U.S state should have the right to decide on whether to permit or prohibit slavery,believing in the idea of states' rights.
William Harris Crawford was an American politician and judge during the early 19th century. He served as US Secretary of War and US Secretary of the Treasury before he ran for US president in the 1824 election.
Samuel William Smith,was a politician from the U.S. state of Michigan.
Kinsley Scott Bingham was a U.S. Representative,a U.S. Senator,and the 11th governor of Michigan.
William S. Broomfield,was an American politician from the U.S. state of Michigan.
William Wallace Blackney was a politician from the U.S. state of Michigan. He served eight terms in the United States House of Representatives.
Vincent Morrison Brennan was a politician from the U.S. state of Michigan. He served one term in the United States House of Representatives from 1921 to 1923.
Gerhard Mennen "Soapy" Williams was an American politician who served as the 41st governor of Michigan,elected in 1948 and serving six two-year terms in office. He later served as Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs under presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson and as chief justice of the Michigan Supreme Court.
Royal Samuel Copeland,a United States Senator from New York from 1923 until 1938,was an academic,homeopathic physician,and politician. He held elected offices in both Michigan and New York.
Lewis William Seidman was an American economist,financial commentator,and former head of the U.S. Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation,best known for his role in helping work to correct the Savings and Loan Crisis in the American financial sector from 1988 to 1991 as head of the Resolution Trust Corporation. He also worked as an economic adviser during three separate administrations of United States presidents:Gerald Ford,Ronald Reagan,and George H. W. Bush. He was lauded by both Republicans and Democrats for his work in cleaning up the frauds of the Savings and Loan disaster,but was pushed out of American government by the George H.W. Bush administration for disclosing the full extent of the crisis to the United States Congress and taxpayers.
Richard Dale Snyder is an American business executive,venture capitalist,attorney,accountant,and politician who served as the 48th governor of Michigan from 2011 to 2019.
William Duncan Schuette is an American lawyer and politician who served as the 53rd attorney general of Michigan from 2011 to 2019. He was the unsuccessful Republican nominee for Senate in 1990 and for Governor of Michigan in the 2018 gubernatorial election.
Charles P. Bush was a politician from the U.S. state of Michigan,and served as the state's 6th Lieutenant Governor from 1847 to 1848.
Michael Dean Bishop is an American attorney and politician who was the U.S. representative for Michigan's 8th congressional district from 2015 to 2019. He is a member of the Republican Party. He previously served in the Michigan House of Representatives from 1999 to 2003,and the Michigan State Senate from 2003 to 2010 where he served as majority leader.
The 1994 Michigan gubernatorial election was held on November 8,1994,to elect the Governor and Lieutenant Governor of the state of Michigan. Incumbent Governor John Engler,a member of the Republican Party,was re-elected over Democratic Party nominee and Congressman Howard Wolpe. The voter turnout was 45.5%.
Daniel Joseph Benishek was an American physician and politician who served three terms as the U.S. representative for Michigan's 1st congressional district from 2011 to 2017. He was a member of the Republican Party.
Kerry Lynn Bentivolio is an American politician and educator who is the former United States Representative for Michigan's 11th congressional district,in office from 2013 to 2015. Bentivolio,a Republican,defeated Democratic nominee Syed Taj,a physician,in the November 6,2012 election. Bentivolio was defeated for the Republican nomination in his bid for a second term by attorney David Trott. He launched a write-in campaign for the November 2014 general election but lost again to Trott. After Trott announced he was not seeking reelection in 2018,Bentivolio again sought election in the eleventh district,but finished last in the primary. In October 2019,Bentivolio announced that he would again run for his former congressional seat against Democrat Haley Stevens in the 2020 election. Bentivolio would finish third in the Republican primary.
William S. Ballenger Sr. was one of the five men who organized and owned the Buick Motor Company,bringing it to Flint,Michigan,in 1905. He was elected secretary and treasurer of Buick until 1908,when the firm was purchased by General Motors.
The Michigan Senate election of 2022 occurred on November 8,2022,to elect all 38 members to the Michigan Senate. The election coincided with elections for all of Michigan's constitutional offices;governor,attorney general,secretary of state and all 110 seats in the Michigan House of Representatives. Seats in the Michigan Senate were last elected in 2018.
