Governor Parsons

Governor Parsons is a Michigan historical marker in Corunna, Shiawassee County, dedicated 1969.

318 McNeil St., Corunna

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Andrew Parsons was born in Hoosick, New York, in 1817. In 1836 he settled in Shiawassee County and at the age of nineteen was elected the first county clerk. After holding a number of county and state offices, Parsons in 1852 became a regent of the University of Michigan. The same year he was elected lieutenant governor, and he became acting governor in March 1853 upon the resignation of Governor Robert McClelland. The formation of the Republican Party in 1854 badly split the Democratic forces and perhaps accounted for Parsons’s failure to receive the gubernatorial nomination. Instead, Parsons was elected to the state legislature from Shiawassee County. He fell ill during the legislative session of 1855 and returned to Corunna where he died on June 6, 1855.

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1819 · Ohio & Indiana (H. S. Tanner, 1819) (Barry Lawrence Ruderman Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1822 · Map Of Michigan Territory. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1853 · Map of the surveyed part of Michigan (Digital Commonwealth, Boston Public Library)
1854 · A map of the surveyed part of Michigan / by John Farmer ; engraved by S. Stiles & Co. (University Library, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)
1873 · Michigan. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

Map Of Michigan Territory, 1822, covering the location of Governor Parsons, with a pin at the marker's coordinates — Map Of Michigan Territory, 1822, covering this location. David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries. The pin is ours, placed from the marker's coordinates.

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