Michigan is a state in the Great Lakes region of the upper Midwestern United States. With a population of nearly 10.12 million and an area of nearly 97,000 sq mi (250,000 km2),Michigan is the 10th-largest state by population,the 11th-largest by area,and the largest by area east of the Mississippi River. Its capital is Lansing,and its largest city is Detroit. Metro Detroit is among the nation's most populous and largest metropolitan economies. Its name derives from a gallicized variant of the original Ojibwe word ᒥᓯᑲᒥ,meaning "large water" or "large lake".
Arthur Hendrick Vandenberg Sr. was an American politician who served as a United States senator from Michigan from 1928 to 1951. A member of the Republican Party,he participated in the creation of the United Nations. He is best known for leading the Republican Party from a foreign policy of isolationism to one of internationalism,and supporting the Cold War,the Truman Doctrine,the Marshall Plan,and NATO. He served as president pro tempore of the United States Senate from 1947 to 1949.
Jamie Lloyd Whitten was an American politician and member of the Democratic Party who represented the state of Mississippi in the United States House of Representatives from 1941 to 1995. He was at the time of his departure the longest-serving U.S. Representative ever. From 1979 to 1995,he was Dean of the U.S. House of Representatives. He is the longest-serving member of Congress ever from Mississippi. He was a New Deal liberal in economic matters,and took a leading role in Congress in forming national policy and spending regarding agriculture.
The Michigan House of Representatives is the lower house of the Michigan Legislature. There are 110 members,each of whom is elected from constituencies having approximately 77,000 to 91,000 residents,based on population figures from the 2010 U.S. Census. Its composition,powers and duties are established in Article IV of the Michigan Constitution.
Homer Samuel Ferguson was an American attorney,professor,judge,United States senator from Michigan,Ambassador to the Philippines,and later a judge on the United States Court of Military Appeals.
Milton Robert Carr,commonly known as Bob Carr,is an American lawyer,academic,and politician from the U.S. state of Michigan.
Joseph M. Kyrillos Jr. is an American Republican Party politician and businessman from New Jersey. Kyrillos served in the New Jersey State Senate from 1992 to 2018,where he represented the 13th Legislative District,and in the General Assembly from 1988 to 1992.
Frank Eugene Hook was a politician from the U.S. state of Michigan.
Jay Abel Hubbell was a politician and judge from the U.S. state of Michigan,who served as a Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives.
Michael Prusi is a former Democratic member of the Michigan Senate,representing the 38th district from 2003 to 2010. His district included Gogebic,Iron,Ontonagon,Delta,Dickinson,Keweenaw,Houghton,Baraga,Marquette,Alger,Luce,Schoolcraft,and Menominee counties in Michigan's Upper Peninsula. Previously he was a member of the Michigan House of Representatives from 1995 through 2000. During his final term,he served as the Senate Minority Leader,following the election of the previous leader,Mark Schauer,to the U.S. House.
Dominic J. Jacobetti was a Democratic politician from the U.S. state of Michigan. He holds the record as the longest-serving member of the Michigan House of Representatives,serving from 1955 until his death in 1994,representing Michigan's 108th and 109th districts.
Tom Casperson was an American politician from the State of Michigan. He formerly served as a Republican member of the Michigan State Senate,representing the 38th district,which includes much of the Upper Peninsula. He previously served in the Michigan State House of Representatives,representing the 108th district.
Robert William Davis was an American politician from the state of Michigan. He represented the state's 11th congressional district,which at that time included the Upper Peninsula and a large portion of Northern Michigan,in the United States House of Representatives from 1979 until 1993.
Hansen 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.
Donald W. Koivisto is a Democratic politician from the U.S. state of Michigan.
Isaiah Chawai Balat was a Nigerian politician and businessman from southern Kaduna State. He was the Senator of the Federal Republic of Nigeria representing for Kaduna South from May 2003 to May 2007 and,a member of the People's Democratic Party. Prior to his election to the Senate,he served as the Minister of State for Works and Housing in the cabinet of President Olusegun Obasanjo from 1999 to 2000. In May 2010,Balat was appointed the Special Advisor to the President on Special Duties where he served until his demise in 2014.
The Michigan Geological Survey is a scientific agency of the U.S. state of Michigan. The survey is headed by the State Geologist of Michigan.
Stephen Paul Dresch was a scholar and professor and a one-term Republican member of the Michigan House of Representatives,serving the western end of the Upper Peninsula in the early 1990s.
Russell Hellman (1917-2004) was a Democratic member of the Michigan House of Representatives,representing the western end of the Upper Peninsula for two decades.
William B. Fitzgerald was an American attorney and Democratic politician who served in both houses of the Michigan Legislature and was Majority Leader of the Michigan Senate. He was later the Democratic nominee for governor in 1978 but lost to incumbent governor William Milliken.
