Chase Osborn

Chase Salmon Osborn ( born January 22, 1860 Huntington County, Indiana, † April 11, 1949 in Poulan, Georgia ) was an American politician and from 1911 to 1913 the 27th Governor of Michigan.

Early years

Chase Osborn attended Purdue University, but he left without a degree. Then he went into the newspaper business. In this field, he succeeded in the following years in the states of Illinois and Wisconsin a remarkable career. He earned various newspapers, which he himself edited. After a move to Sault Saint Marie, Michigan, he summed up in this state as a newspaper publisher feet.

Political rise

Osborn's political rise began in 1889 in Sault Saint Marie, where he was until 1893 head of the post office. Between 1895 and 1899 he was hunting and fishing overseer (Game and Fish Warden ) of the State of Michigan, from 1899 to 1903 he was a railway officer ( Railroad Commissioner). In 1900 he applied unsuccessfully for the Republican nomination for the gubernatorial elections. In 1908 he was a delegate to the Republican National Convention, when William Howard Taft was nominated as presidential candidate. Between 1908 and 1911, Osborn was on the board of the University of Michigan.

Governor of Michigan

In 1910 he was elected as a candidate of the Republican Party as the new governor of his country. Osborn began his two -year term on January 2, 1911. During his reign, the budget deficit was reduced and adopt new health and safety legislation. During the presidential elections of 1912 he left the course of his party, which had William Howard Taft once again nominated its presidential candidate. Instead, Osborn supported the former Republican President Theodore Roosevelt, who now ran as a candidate of the Progressive Party. They finally won the Democrat Woodrow Wilson. Osborn joined in 1912, probably because of the discussion about his attitude in the presidential election, not for re-election at.

Further CV

Even after the end of his term as Governor Osborn remained politically active. He ran unsuccessfully in 1916 for another term as governor. In the years 1918 and 1936 he applied also unsuccessful for a seat in the U.S. Senate. Contrary to the national trend Osborn supported President Wilson's efforts to American entry into the League of Nations. In the 1920s and 1930s, he was also an opponent of the so-called policy of isolation. He was of the opinion that the United States would have to open up to the world events. In 1928, Osborn was a candidate for the vice-presidency on the side of Herbert Hoover in conversation. However, the majority of Republicans voted then for Charles Curtis, who was also elected to this office. After the end of his political ambitions Osborn turned back to the newspaper business. He died in April 1949 at his country estate in Georgia at the age of 89 years after he had married two days before his 54 -year-old adopted daughter Stella Brunt. With his first wife, Lillian Jones, he had seven children.