Cadwallader Jones

Thomas W. Palmer

1830–1913 (age 83)

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U.S. Senator from 1883 to 1889.

Solomon Sibley

1769–1846 (age 77)

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Delegate to U.S. Congress from Michigan Territory and first Mayor of Detroit under the first charter.

Lewis Cass

1782–1866 (age 84)

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Michigan Territorial Governor and Democratic presidential nominee in 1848 who served as U.S. Secretary of War and State.

Lucius Lyon

1800–1851 (age 51)

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U.S. Senator and first congressman from Michigan's second district who helped found Grand Rapids.

James Robinson

1753–1868 (age 115)

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African-American Revolutionary War and War of 1812 veteran.

Coleman Young

1918–1997 (age 79)

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Mayor of Detroit from 1974 to 1994.