biography
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Mason, Stevens Thomson
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| male
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| lived:
| (1811–43)
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| biography:
| US governor, born in Loudoun Co, Virginia, USA. At age 19 he took over for his father as secretary of the Michigan Territory (1831–6) and led the statehood movement, winning the Upper Peninsula in a boundary dispute. As first governor of Michigan (Democrat, 1837–40), he lost popular support when he failed to renegotiate state bonds during the banking crisis of 1837. |
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