Dearborn is a city in Wayne County,Michigan,United States. It is an inner-ring suburb in Metro Detroit,bordering Detroit to the south and west,and roughly 7 miles (11.3 km) west of downtown Detroit. In the 2020 census,it had a population of 109,976,ranking as the seventh-most populous city in Michigan. Dearborn is best known as the hometown of the Ford Motor Company and of its founder,Henry Ford.
Carolyn Jean Cheeks Kilpatrick is a former American politician who was U.S. Representative for Michigan's 15th congressional district and then Michigan's 13th congressional district from 1997 to 2011. She is a member of the Democratic Party. In August 2010 she lost the Democratic primary election to Hansen Clarke,who replaced her in January 2011 after winning the 2010 general election. Kilpatrick is also the mother of former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick.
Robert Paul Griffin was an American politician from the U.S. state of Michigan. A member of the Republican Party,he served in both chambers of the United States Congress as a member of the United States House of Representatives from 1957 to 1966 and a member of the United States Senate from 1966 to 1979 and later served a Justice of the Michigan Supreme Court from 1987 to 1995. He co-sponsored the Labor Management Reporting and Disclosure Act of 1959,which regulates the internal affairs of labor unions. As a deputy minority leader in the Senate,he called on President Richard Nixon,a fellow Republican,to resign during the Watergate scandal.
William McNulty Brodhead is an American lawyer and former politician from Michigan who served four terms in the United States House of Representatives from 1975 to 1983.
Charles William Jones was an American attorney and politician. A Democrat,he served as a United States Senator from Florida from 1875 to 1887. Jones abandoned his seat near the end of his second term,and it remained vacant for a year until a successor was elected. Jones was later diagnosed as mentally ill,and was hospitalized at a Dearborn,Michigan asylum for seven years before his death.
Susy (Heintz) Avery is an American politician from the state of Michigan. She was Chairman of the Michigan Republican Party from 1995 to 1996 and the Party's 1996 nominee to represent Michigan's 10th congressional district in the United States House of Representatives.
Hansen Hashim Clarke is an American politician and former U.S. Congressman. A Democrat,he was the U.S. representative for Michigan's 13th congressional district from 2011 to 2013. Prior to his election to Congress,he had been a member of the Michigan House of Representatives from 1991 through 1992 and from 1999 through 2002,and represented the 1st district in the Michigan Senate from 2003 to 2011. Clarke was also the first U.S. Congressman of Bangladeshi descent.
Andrew Dillon is a Democratic Party politician from the U.S. state of Michigan. While Dillon is a Democrat,he was appointed by Governor Rick Snyder,a Republican,to be the state's treasurer. Before serving in the Cabinet,Dillon was speaker of the Michigan House of Representatives.
Martha G. Scott is an American politician serving as a member of the Wayne County Commission. She previously served as a Democratic member of the Michigan State Senate from 2001 through 2010,a member of the Michigan House of Representatives from 1994 through 2001. Her senate district included the northeast section of Detroit and the cities of Hamtramck,Highland Park,Harper Woods,and the five Grosse Pointes. She was term limited at the 2010 elections,and ran for the office of Wayne County Commissioner. She won election has since been reelected several times to the Wayne County Commission.
Tupac Amaru Hunter is an American politician who is a former member of the Michigan Senate,representing the 5th district which encompasses northwest Detroit,Dearborn Heights and Inkster. He served as the Minority Floor Leader.
George Cushingberry Jr. is an American politician from Michigan. Cushingberry was a member of the Detroit City Council and a member of Michigan House of Representatives.
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.
Vincent "Vince" Gregory was an American law enforcement officer and politician who served as a member of the Michigan Senate from 2011 to 2019. A member of the Democratic Party,Gregory served as a member of the Michigan House of Representatives from 2009 to 2011. He also served as a deputy in the Wayne County Sheriff's Department for 30 years,and was the Democratic nominee for Oakland County Sheriff in 2020.
Ellen Cogen Lipton is an American politician and patent attorney from Huntington Woods,Michigan. She currently serves on the Michigan State Board of Education.
The 2014 Michigan House of Representatives elections were held on November 4,2014,with partisan primaries to select the parties' nominees in the various districts on August 5,2014. Members elected at the 2014 election served in the 98th Michigan Legislature which convened on January 7,2015.
Julie Plawecki was an American politician from Michigan who represented the 11th District—which comprises the cities of Garden City and Inkster,and parts of Dearborn Heights,Livonia and Westland—in the Michigan House of Representatives after being elected in November 2014 for the Democratic Party.
The 2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Michigan were held on November 6,2018,to elect the 14 U.S. representatives from the state of Michigan,one from each of the state's 14 congressional districts. The elections coincided with the elections of other offices,including a gubernatorial election,other elections to the House of Representatives,elections to the United States Senate,and various state and local elections. The filing deadline for candidates filing for the August 7 primary was April 24,2018. Unless otherwise indicated,the Cook Political Report rated the congressional races as safe for the party of the incumbent.
Brenda B. Jones is an American politician who served as a member of the Detroit City Council from 2006 to 2022,and as the president of the City Council from 2014 to 2022. A member of the Democratic Party,Jones also briefly served as the U.S. representative for Michigan's 13th congressional district from November 29,2018,to January 3,2019. She won the 2018 special election to succeed John Conyers following his resignation in December 2017,and was succeeded by Rashida Tlaib. She ran for the seat again in 2020,losing the Democratic primary to Tlaib by a wide margin.
Darrin QuirozCamilleri is an American politician from Michigan who represents the 4th district in the Michigan Senate since 2023. He previously represented the 23rd District in the Michigan House of Representatives. A member of the Democratic Party,his constituency includes several Downriver communities,including Brownstown,Gibraltar,Grosse Ile,Huron,Trenton and Woodhaven.
Kelly A. Hough-Breen is an American Democratic politician from Michigan. She was elected to the Michigan House of Representatives from the 38th district in 2020. After the 2020 redistricting cycle,she was redistricted to the 21st district where she was elected in 2022.
