George Griswold
{{Short description|American politician}}
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{{Infobox officeholder
|name = George R. Griswold
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|office = 10th Lieutenant Governor of Michigan
|term_start = March 8, 1853
|term_end = January 1855
|governor2 = Andrew Parsons
|predecessor2 = Andrew Parsons
|successor2 = George Coe
|office3 = Member of the Michigan Senate
|term3 = 1848–1849
1853
|birth_date = {{birth date|1794|12|31}}
|birth_place = New York, U.S.
|death_date = {{Death date and age|1857|04|05|1794|12|31|mf=yes}}
|death_place = on board the USS Dolphin off the African coast
|resting_place = Forest Home Cemetery
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
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|party = Whig
Republican Party
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|profession = Lawyer
Newspaper Publisher
Politician
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|branch = United States Navy
|serviceyears = 1855-1857
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|rank = Purser
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George R. Griswold (December 31, 1794 – April 5, 1857) was an American politician and the tenth lieutenant governor of Michigan. Griswold was born in the U.S. state of New York and later moved to Detroit, Michigan and practiced law. Griswold died on board {{USS|Dolphin|1836|6}} off the African coast just over two years after leaving office.
Career
Griswold served as clerk of the first Michigan House of Representatives in 1835. He was register of deeds from 1837 to 1841 and clerk of Wayne County from 1843 to 1847. In 1839 he became owner and publisher of the Detroit Morning Post, and he became State Printer.{{cite book|last1=Michigan. Legislature. Senate|title=Journal|year=1839|publisher=1839 Harvard University|page=[https://archive.org/details/journal111senagoog/page/n538 530]|url=https://archive.org/details/journal111senagoog |access-date=11 June 2014}} He later served in the Michigan Senate from Detroit (1st District) from 1848 until 1849 and again in 1853 when he served as president pro tempore.{{cite book|title=EARLY HISTORY WITH BIOGRAPHIES OF STATE OFFICERS|year=1888|publisher=1888 the University of Michigan|page=[https://archive.org/details/earlyhistorymic00binggoog/page/n319 313]|url=https://archive.org/details/earlyhistorymic00binggoog |access-date=11 June 2014}}
On March 8, 1853, Michigan Governor Robert McClelland resigned to become Secretary of the Interior under Franklin Pierce. As a result, Lieutenant Governor Andrew Parsons became Governor and Griswold became the tenth Lieutenant Governor and served from 1853 to 1854.{{cite book|title=Michigan Manual|year=1905|publisher=1906 - Michigan|page=118|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TcEGAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA118 |access-date=11 June 2014}} On September 16 of that year he was appointed a purser in the U. S. Navy. He served as acting lieutenant governor until George Coe was elected and then took his place in January 1855.
References
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External links
- [http://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/griswold.html#RS70VVGJY Political Graveyard]
- {{cite book | last = Bingham | first = Stephen D. | title = Early history of Michigan, with biographies of state officers, members of Congress, judges and legislators. Pub. pursuant to act 59, 1887 | orig-year = 1888 | url = http://name.umdl.umich.edu/bad6021.0001.001 | access-date = 2007-07-26 | year = 2005 | publisher = University of Michigan Library | location = Ann Arbor, Mich. | pages = 313 | chapter = s.v. George R. Griswold | chapter-url = http://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/pageviewer-idx?c=micounty;cc=micounty;q1=Griswold;rgn=full%20text;idno=bad6021.0001.001;didno=bad6021.0001.001;view=image;seq=00000319}}
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|before= Andrew Parsons
|title= Lieutenant Governor of Michigan
|years= 1853–1855
|after= George Coe}}
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{{Lieutenant Governors of Michigan}}
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Category:Lieutenant governors of Michigan
Category:Democratic Party Michigan state senators
Category:People from Michigan Territory