Lansing is the capital of the U.S. state of Michigan and the most populous city in Ingham County. It is mostly in the county,although portions of the city extend west into Eaton County and north into Clinton County. The 2020 census placed the city's population at 112,644,making it the sixth most populous city in Michigan. The population of its metropolitan statistical area (MSA) was 541,297 at the 2020 census,the third largest in the state after metropolitan Detroit and Grand Rapids. It was named the new state capital of Michigan in 1847,ten years after Michigan became a state.
Ingham County is a county located in the U.S. state of Michigan. As of the 2020 Census,the population was 284,900. The county seat is Mason. Lansing,the state capital of Michigan,is largely located within the county. Lansing is the only state capital in the United States located in a county of which it is not also the seat of government. The county is home to Michigan State University,Lansing Community College,and the Class A minor league baseball team Lansing Lugnuts. Ingham County is included in the Lansing–East Lansing,MI Metropolitan Statistical Area. It is considered to be a part of Mid Michigan.
M-99 is a north–south state trunkline highway in the Lower Peninsula of the US state of Michigan. It runs from the Ohio state border,where it connects to State Route 15 (SR 15),north to Lansing,where it terminates at a junction with Interstate 496 (I-496). The highway mainly serves local communities along the route as it passes through farm lands in the southern part of the state. One short segment,in Jonesville,is routed concurrently with US Highway 12 (US 12). The segment within Lansing follows Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard.
US Highway 16 (US 16),also called Grand River Avenue for much of its length in the state,was one of the principal roads prior to the post-World War II construction of freeways in the state of Michigan. Before the creation of the United States Numbered Highway System in 1926,the highway had been designated as a state highway numbered M-16. The modern route of Grand River Avenue cuts across the Lower Peninsula in a northwest–southeast fashion from near Grand Rapids to Detroit. Before the late 1950s and early 1960s,US 16 followed other roads between Muskegon and Grand Rapids,and then Grand River Avenue through Lansing to Detroit. In the years immediately preceding the creation of the Interstate Highway System,US 16 was shifted from older roads to newer freeways. Later,it was co-designated as an Interstate. When the gap in the freeway was filled in around Lansing,the US 16 designation was decommissioned in the state. The freeway was solely designated Interstate 96 (I-96) east of Grand Rapids and I-196 west of that city.
Stevens Thomson Mason was an American politician who served as the first governor of Michigan from 1835 to 1840. Coming to political prominence at an early age,Mason was appointed his territory's acting territorial secretary by Andrew Jackson at age 19,becoming the acting territorial governor soon thereafter in 1834 at age 22. As territorial governor,Mason was instrumental in guiding Michigan to statehood,which was secured in 1837. A member of the Democratic Party,he was elected as Michigan's first state governor in 1835,where he served until 1840. Elected at 23 and taking office at 24,Mason was and remains the youngest state governor in American history.
John Theodore Herrmann was a writer in the 1920s and 1930s and is alleged to have introduced Whittaker Chambers to Alger Hiss.
The Bath School disaster,also known as the Bath School massacre,was a series of violent attacks perpetrated by Andrew Kehoe upon the Bath Consolidated School in Bath Charter Township,Michigan,United States,on May 18,1927. The attacks killed 38 children and 6 adults,and injured at least 58 other people. Prior to the explosions at the school,Kehoe had murdered his wife,Nellie Price Kehoe,and firebombed his farm. Arriving at the site of the school explosion,Kehoe died when he set off explosives concealed in his truck.
T. Henry Howlett was a member of the Michigan House of Representatives from Gregory,Michigan who was one of six members of the state House killed in the Kerns Hotel fire in Lansing on December 11,1934. Also killed were representatives Charles D. Parker,Vern Voorhees,John W. Goodwine,Don E. Sias,and D. Knox Hanna,along with state senator John Leidlein. The men were in Lansing for a special session of the Michigan legislature.
Vern Voorhees (1878-1934) was a member of the Michigan House of Representatives. He was one of six members of the state House killed in the Kerns Hotel fire in Lansing on December 11,1934. Also killed were representatives Charles D. Parker,T. Henry Howlett,John W. Goodwine,Don E. Sias,and D. Knox Hanna,along with state senator John Leidlein. The men were in Lansing for a special session of the Michigan legislature.
John W. Goodwine (1879-1934) was a member of the Michigan House of Representatives. He was one of six members of the state House killed in the Kerns Hotel fire in Lansing on December 11,1934. Also killed were representatives Charles D. Parker,T. Henry Howlett,Vern Voorhees,Don E. Sias,and D. Knox Hanna,along with state senator John Leidlein. The men were in Lansing for a special session of the Michigan legislature.
Donald E. Sias was a member of the Michigan House of Representatives. He was one of six members of the state House killed in the Kerns Hotel fire in Lansing on December 11,1934. Also killed were representatives Charles D. Parker,Vern Voorhees,T. Henry Howlett,John W. Goodwine,and D. Knox Hanna,along with state senator John Leidlein. The men were in Lansing for a special session of the Michigan legislature.
D. Knox Hanna was a member of the Michigan House of Representatives. He was one of six members of the state House killed in the Kerns Hotel fire in Lansing on December 11,1934. Also killed were representatives Charles D. Parker,T. Henry Howlett,Vern Voorhees,John W. Goodwine,and Don E. Sias,along with state senator John Leidlein. The men were in Lansing for a special session of the Michigan legislature.
Charles Parker (1877-1934) was a member of the Michigan House of Representatives. He was one of six members of the state House killed in the Kerns Hotel fire in Lansing on December 11,1934. Also killed were representatives D. Knox Hanna,T. Henry Howlett,Vern Voorhees,John W. Goodwine,and Don E. Sias,along with state senator John Leidlein. The men were in Lansing for a special session of the Michigan legislature.
The Kerns Hotel fire of December 11,1934,in Lansing,Michigan,United States,killed 34 people,including seven Michigan state legislators,and according to the Lansing Fire Department,was the worst fire disaster in the history of Lansing. The fire occurred around 5:30 am and spread rapidly through the building's wooden interior,trapping many of the hotel's 215 guests in their rooms and forcing them to escape via fire ladders or life nets. In addition to the fatalities,42 more people,including fourteen firemen,were injured in the fire,which was thought to have been caused by a carelessly discarded cigarette.
John Dykstra was a member of the Michigan House of Representatives from 1927 to 1934. A Republican,he was defeated for reelection in 1934;he later unsuccessfully ran for Michigan State Senate. Dykstra was born in Holland,Michigan,and served as a street railway motorman outside politics. He was a survivor of the devastating fire at the Kerns Hotel in Lansing on December 11,1934 which killed six of his fellow representatives,T. Henry Hewlett,Charles D. Parker,Vern Voorhees,John W. Goodwine,Don E. Sias,and D. Knox Hanna;also killed was state senator John Leidlein.
Events from the year 1934 in Michigan.
Michigan's 79th House of Representatives district is a legislative district within the Michigan House of Representatives located in parts of Allegan,Barry,and Kent counties. The district was created in 1965,when the Michigan House of Representatives district naming scheme changed from a county-based system to a numerical one.
Michigan's 106th House of Representatives district is a legislative district within the Michigan House of Representatives located in parts of Cheboygan and Oscoda counties,as well as all of Alcona,Alpena,Montmorency,and Presque Isle counties. The district was created in 1965,when the Michigan House of Representatives district naming scheme changed from a county-based system to a numerical one.
Marjorie J. Lansing was an American political scientist and activist. She developed and popularized the idea of a gender gap in voting,in which certain candidates or issues tend to receive different levels of support from women as they do from men. She was a professor of political science at Eastern Michigan University in the 1970s and 1980s,and she taught the first course in women's studies at Eastern Michigan University. Lansing ran for a number of different public offices in Michigan.
