Grant Decker
{{Short description|American politician (1814–1890)}}
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|office = Mayor of the City of Flint
|term_start = 1855
|term_end = 1856
|predecessor = Office established
|successor = Robert J. S. Page[http://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/ofc/flint.html Political Graveyards.com List of Flint City Mayors]
|birth_date =February 4, 1814
|birth_place = Deckertown, Sussex County, New Jersey
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|death_place=Flint, Genesee County, Michigan
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Grant Decker (February 4, 1814 – July 30, 1890) was the first mayor of the village (now City) of Flint, Michigan serving from 1855 to 1856. He was a merchant, miller and in the lumber businesses at some time in his life.[http://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/decker.html#0LH0PYMWV Political Graveyards.com Index to Politicians: Decker --Decker, Grant entry]
Early life
Decker was born in Deckertown, Sussex County, New Jersey on February 4, 1814.[https://books.google.com/books?id=Lad5AAAAMAAJ&pg=PA49&dq=%22Grant+Decker%22+Deckertown+Flint The Book of the Golden Jubilee of Flint, Michigan 1855-1905. Published Under the Auspices of the Executive Committee of the Golden Jubilee and Old Homecoming Reunion], p. 49. Weller & Austin, 1905. Accessed December 26, 2022. "Grant Decker, the first Mayor of Flint, was forty-one years of age when elected Mayor, having been born February 4, 1814, in Deckertown, N.J., where his family located before the war of the Revolution." He came to Flint, Michigan, in 1839 to work in the lumbering industry. With the Honorable Artemas Thayer, he built a flour mill. Later in association with Captain Ira H. Wilder, he owned interests in a flour and feed mill. Over his time in Flint, eight fires hit his various businesses.{{Cite web |url=http://www.usgennet.org/usa/mi/county/lapeer/gen/ch13/firstofficers2.html |title=The History of Genesee County, MI Chapter XIII. First City Officers. |access-date=2009-01-23 |archive-date=2012-09-30 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120930173004/http://www.usgennet.org/usa/mi/county/lapeer/gen/ch13/firstofficers2.html |url-status=dead }}
Political
Post-Political
On July 30, 1890, Decker died in Flint with interment in Glenwood Cemetery, Flint.
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Category:Burials at Glenwood Cemetery (Flint, Michigan)
Category:Mayors of Flint, Michigan
Category:People from Sussex, New Jersey
Category:Politicians from Sussex County, New Jersey
Category:19th-century mayors of places in Michigan
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