First Michigan Territorial Council was a meeting of the legislative body governing Michigan Territory, known formally as the Legislative Council of the...
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The Michigan Territorial Council, known formally as the Legislative Council of the Territory of Michigan, was the legislative body of the Territory of...
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Second Michigan Territorial Council was a meeting of the legislative body governing Michigan Territory, known formally as the Legislative Council of the...
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Sixth Michigan Territorial Council was a meeting of the legislative body governing Michigan Territory, known formally as the Legislative Council of the...
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Fifth Michigan Territorial Council was a meeting of the legislative body governing Michigan Territory, known formally as the Legislative Council of the...
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Third Michigan Territorial Council was a meeting of the legislative body governing Michigan Territory, known formally as the Legislative Council of the...
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Fourth Michigan Territorial Council was a meeting of the legislative body governing Michigan Territory, known formally as the Legislative Council of the...
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territorial governors. In 1805, the Michigan Territory was created, and five men served as territorial governors, until Michigan was granted statehood in 1837...
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The Seventh Michigan Territorial Council, also known as the Rump Council, was a meeting of the legislative body governing Michigan Territory in January...
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The 1825 Michigan Territorial Council election was held in the Territory of Michigan to elect the members of the territory's legislative council. The First...
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the U.S. state of Michigan. He served in the U.S. Army during the War of 1812 and was president of the Michigan Territorial Council for a majority of...
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was bicameral. The upper chamber, the Council, consisted of nine councillors in the 1st through 6th Territorial Legislatures, and fifteen councillors...
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Laws". The History of Detroit and Michigan; or, The Metropolis Illustrated; A Full Record of Territorial Days in Michigan, and the Annals of Wayne County...
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Indiana Territory (category Pre-statehood history of Michigan)
popularly-elected House of Representatives and a Legislative Council. In addition, the territorial government began planning for a basic transportation network...
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The 1st Michigan Legislature, consisting of the Michigan Senate and the Michigan House of Representatives, met in Detroit in three sessions between November...
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John McDonell (American politician) (category Members of the Michigan Territorial Legislature)
the territorial governor to serve as an auctioneer in Detroit from 1817 to 1818. McDonell was one of Wayne County's representatives on the Michigan Territorial...
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Jeremiah Smith Jr. (category Members of the Wisconsin Territorial Legislature)
portion of what would later become Iowa) in the Council (the upper house) of the 1st Wisconsin Territorial Assembly, since at that time Iowa was part of...
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Joseph W. Torrey (politician) (category Members of the Michigan Territorial Legislature)
Andrew Jackson during his time in Detroit. Torrey served on the Michigan Territorial Council from May 1, 1832 to April 23, 1833. Torrey moved back to Connecticut...
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The state and territorial courts of the individual U.S. states and territories operate under the authority of the state and territorial constitutions...
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The University of Michigan (U-M, UMich, or Michigan) is a public research university in Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States. Founded in 1817, it is the...
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Joseph B. Teas (category Members of the Michigan Territorial Legislature)
elected as a member of the 7th Michigan Territorial Council (the so-called "Rump Council" for those parts of the former Michigan Territory which were not to...
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Farnsworth & Bates with Asher B. Bates. He was elected to the Legislative Council of Michigan Territory in 1834 and served one term. When the office of Chancellor...
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John Parker (Iowa politician) (category Members of the Michigan Territorial Legislature)
Michigan were invited to elect members to a seventh and last Michigan Territorial Council. The citizens of Dubuque County (the north half of the Iowa District)...
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first Attorney General for the Wisconsin Territory. January 26, 1837: Michigan was admitted to the United States as the 26th state. February 6, 1837:...
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Jonathan D. Davis (category Democratic Party Michigan state senators)
as a colonel, commanding the 1st Regiment, 2nd Brigade, 1st Division (Washtenaw County). Davis served as a territorial judge and was later elected as...
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Territorial evolution of Oregon Territorial evolution of South Dakota Territorial evolution of Utah Territorial evolution of Washington Territorial evolution...
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ceded to Mexico. Territorial evolution of the United States Territorial evolution of Canada Territorial evolution of Mexico Territorial evolution of the...
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Henry G. Bailly (category Members of the Minnesota Territorial Legislature)
Hastings, Minnesota who served in the 7th and 8th Minnesota Territorial Legislatures, as well as the 1st Minnesota Legislature. He fought in the Civil War for...
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The Michigan Senate is the upper house of the Michigan Legislature. Along with the Michigan House of Representatives, it composes the state legislature...
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List of mayors of Detroit (redirect from List of Mayors of Detroit, Michigan)
Detroit and Michigan: or, the metropolis illustrated; a chronological cyclopaedia of the past and present, including a full record of territorial days in...
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