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- ↑ "Agriculture director Irwin to retire". The Petoskey News-Review. 18 July 2007. Archived from the original on 18 December 2014. Retrieved 17 December 2014.
- ↑ Granholm Announces Mitch Irwin as Director of Management and Budget (January 27, 2003)
- ↑ The Political Graveyard: Irwin, Mitch
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