- Francis B. Stockbridge
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order =United States Senator fromMichigan
term_start =March 4 ,1887
term_end =April 30 ,1894
predecessor =Omar D. Conger
successor =John Patton, Jr.
birth_date =April 9 ,1826
birth_place =Bath, Maine
death_date =April 30 ,1894
death_place =Chicago, Illinois
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party = Republican
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footnotes =Francis Brown Stockbridge (
April 9 ,1826 –April 30 ,1894 ) was aU.S. Senator from the state ofMichigan .Stockbridge was born in
Bath, Maine and attended the common schools. He clerked at a wholesale house in Boston 1843-1847. He moved to Chicago and opened a lumber yard. He then moved toSaugatuck, Michigan in 1851 and engaged in the operation of sawmills. He was also interested in mercantile pursuits. He moved to Kalamazoo in 1863 and engaged in the lumber business there. He was a member of theMichigan State House of Representatives in 1869 and a member of theMichigan State Senate in 1871. Stockbridge was appointed ambassador to theNetherlands onJuly 12 ,1875 . He took the oath of office but never proceeded to the post.In 1882, Stockbridge purchased the site of the famous Grand Hotel on
Mackinac Island and arranged financing for its construction from the three major transportation companies that rendered service to the island at the time: theMichigan Central Railroad , theGrand Rapids and Indiana Railroad , and theDetroit and Cleveland Navigation Company . Together, they formed the Mackinac Island Hotel Company, which then built the Grand Hotel in 1887.He was elected as a Republican to the
United States Senate in 1887 and was reelected in 1893. He served fromMarch 4 ,1887 until his death onApril 30 ,1894 . He was chairman of the Committee on Fisheries in the Fiftieth through Fifty-second Congresses. He died suddenly while visiting his nephew James Houghteling in Chicago. He is interred in Mountain Home Cemetery in Kalamazoo, Michigan.Stockbridge was the last person to have served in the
Michigan State Legislature and in theUnited States Senate untilDebbie Stabenow was elected in 2000.Bibliography
* U.S. Congress. "Memorial Addresses". 53rd Cong., 3rd sess. from 1894 to 1895.
Washington, D.C. : Government Printing Office, 1895.External links
* [http://www.michigan.gov/hal/0,1607,7-160-17449_18638_20846-54588--,00.html Grand Hotel]
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