Edward Mundy

Mundy was born in Middlesex County, New Jersey, and graduated from Rutgers College in 1812.{{cite book|last1=Rutgers University|title=Catalogue of Rutgers College, MDCCCXXXV|year=1835|publisher=1835|page=19|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6Xc7AAAAYAAJ&pg=PA19 |access-date=11 June 2014}} In later years was for one of the appointed Regents of the University.{{cite book|last1=Shaw, University of Michigan. Alumni Association|first1=Wilfred Byron|title=Quarterly Review: A Journal of University Perspectives, Volume 42|year=1935|publisher=UM Libraries, 1935|page=260 & 261|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RSRYAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA260 |access-date=11 June 2014}} He was admitted to the bar and began a practice in New Jersey. and was for several years one of the appointed Regents of the University.

In about 1819, Mundy moved to Illinois and remained there several years, until the losses he experienced due to a fire caused him to return to New Jersey, where he continued for some years in other business pursuits. In 1831, he moved with his family to Ann Arbor, Michigan. He was appointed Justice of the Peace by the Territorial Governor and was subsequently made a Judge of one of the Territorial Courts. In 1835, he was a delegate from the 4th district to the first State Constitutional Convention to prepare for the admission of the State to the Union.

Mundy was nominated to the office of Lieutenant Governor on the ticket with Governor Stevens T. Mason. They both won the general election, and he served as Michigan's first Lieutenant Governor, from 1835 to 1840.{{cite web|title=Edward Mundy |url=http://www.michigan.gov/formergovernors/0,4584,7-212--95494--,00.html |publisher=2001-2014 State of Michigan |access-date=11 June 2014 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130403034344/http://www.michigan.gov/formergovernors/0,4584,7-212--95494--,00.html |archive-date=3 April 2013 }}

Appointed by Governor William L. Greenly and the Michigan Senate to the office of Prosecuting Attorney, Mundy went on that year to serve as Michigan Attorney General. In 1848, the Michigan Supreme Court was expanded to include a fifth justice and a new judicial circuit, which were presided over by Supreme Court judges. Mundy was appointed the Supreme Court and to the new circuit and was a justice of the Michigan Supreme Court until his death.

Mundy died while in office, in Grand Rapids, Kent County, Michigan, on May 13, 1851 (age 57 years, 29 days). The place of his interment is in Fulton Street Cemetery.

The son of Samuel and Abigail Mundy, he married Sarah Mundy, daughter of Phinehas Mundy, on November 11, 1816. They had five children, Phinehas, Abby Rowland, Elizabeth Lennington, Julia Thompson, and James Edward.{{cite book|last1=Mundy|first1=Ezra F.|title=Nicholas Mundy and Descendants who Settled in New Jersey in 1665|year=1907|publisher=Bullock Printing Company, 1907|url=https://archive.org/details/nicholasmundyan00mundgoog |page=[https://archive.org/details/nicholasmundyan00mundgoog/page/n50 37]|access-date=11 June 2014}}

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• [https://web.archive.org/web/20071004221721/http://www.micourthistory.org/resources/emundy.php Michigan Supreme Court Historical Society]

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