James M. Birney

James M. Birney ( born June 17, 1817 in Danville, Kentucky; † May 8, 1888 in Bay City, Bay County, Michigan ) was an American politician from Michigan.

Career

James M. Birney, eldest son of Agatha ( McDowell ) and James G. Birney, the U.S. presidential candidates of 1840 and 1844, was born in 1817 in Danville. He spent his early years in Alabama and Kentucky. He attended Centre College in Danville and graduated in 1826 from Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. Subsequently, he was employed as a professor of Greek and Latin the next two years. He then studied law at Yale Collge in New Haven, Connecticut. During his stay in New Haven, he married Amanda Moulton, the step-daughter of Nathaniel Bacon, Esquire of New Haven.

After finishing his studies there Birney settled in Cincinnati, where he practiced until 1856 as a lawyer. When his father became ill, he moved to Saginaw Valley in Michigan, where he took care of his father's business, where he made major investments in what is now Bay City was. Birney moved in the summer of 1857 with his family there. One of Birney's most important early laws in the civil service in 1857 was the passage of the bill in the Michigan Legislature, which changed the name of " Lower Saginaw ," Bad City. 1856 Birney got an award for the publication of the first city newspaper, the Bay City Press, which was only a few weeks.

Birney was nominated in 1858 as the Republican candidate for the Senate from Michigan. At the time of the Senate district was firmly in the hands of the Democratic Party. Accordingly, he was seen as a major success, as Birney to five collected all the votes of the district within the Bay County. He was a single term in the Senate, where he represented the Saginaw district. During this time he was the chairman of the Committee on Public Education ( Committee on Public Instruction) and member of the Judiciary Committee.

In 1860 he was nominated by the State Republican Convention as a candidate for the post of lieutenant governor with Austin Blair as candidates for the post of governor. Birney was elected to the office with a majority of over 20,000 votes. During his term as Lieutenant Governor a vacancy on the 10th District Court of Michigan entered, so that he, the governor offered the post. Birney occurred on April 3, 1861, vice governor back, accepted the appointment as a judge and held the post for the next four years. He lost the next election judge so that he Jabez G. Sutherland succeeded.

After his time as a judge in 1871, he founded the Bay City Chronicle as a weekly, Republican newspaper and in June 1873 he began to publish the Morning Chronicle. He was also a delegate for Michigan in 1872 at the Republican National Convention.

1872 nominated the Governor Henry P. Baldwin Birney U.S. President Ulysses S. Grant as Centennial Commissioner for Michigan, who was celebrating the 100th anniversary of the Independence of the United States in 1876. However, he was unable to hold this post since he was appointed U.S. ambassador to the Netherlands on 17 December 1875. He traveled to The Hague from 1876 and served there until 1882.

Birney died on 8 May 1888 in Bay City and was then buried in the local Pine Ridge Cemetery. He had five children with his wife Amanda: James G. Birney, Arthur Moulton Birney, Sophia Hull ( Blackwell ), Alice ( Mrs. Frank Blackwell ), and a child who died in infancy. The oldest, James G., was a captain in the 7th Regiment of Michigan Volunteer and died as an officer in the regular U.S. Army.

Swell

The Political Graveyard
Charles R. Tuttle: Chapter XVII. In: General history of the state of Michigan. University of Michigan Library, Ann Arbor, Mich.. 2005, pp. 269-271 (accessed on 30 April 2007).
Augustus H. Gansser: Biographical. In: History of Bay County, Michigan: and representative citizens. University of Michigan Library, Ann Arbor, Mich.. 2005, pp. 408-411 (accessed on 30 April 2007).

Deputy Governor (Michigan)
Member of the Senate of Michigan
Member of the Republican Party (United States)
Ambassador of the United States in the Netherlands
Inverter ( USA )
Lawyer ( United States)
Americans
Born in 1817
Died in 1888
Man

Danville (Kentucky) Bay City (Michigan) Bay County (Michigan) Oxford (Ohio) Michigan Senate Governor (United States) Lieutenant Governor of Michigan James Wright Gordon Andrew Parsons Alfred Milnes Patrick H. Kelley Luren Dickinson Martha Griffiths

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