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| Affiliation | Republican |
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| Name | Francis B. Stockbridge |
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, Michigan , United States |
| Email | None |
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April 09, 1826
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| Died | April 30, 1894
(68 years)
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| Contributor | Thomas Walker |
| Last Modifed | RBH
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| Info | STOCKBRIDGE, Francis Brown, a Senator from Michigan; born in Bath, Maine, April 9, 1826; attended the common schools; clerk in a wholesale house in Boston 1843-1847; moved to Chicago, Ill., and opened a lumber yard; moved to Saugatuck, Allegan County, Mich., in 1851 and engaged in the operation of sawmills; also interested in mercantile pursuits; moved to Kalamazoo, Mich., in 1863 and engaged in the lumber business; member, State house of representatives 1869; member, State senate 1871; elected as a Republican to the United States Senate in 1887; reelected in 1893 and served from March 4, 1887, until his death in Chicago, Ill., on April 30, 1894; chairman, Committee on Fisheries (Fiftieth through Fifty-second Congresses); interment in Mountain Home Cemetery, Kalamazoo, Mich.
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