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LUCIUS LYON, (1800-1851)
Democratic Senator
1837-1839
A
Delegate, a Senator, and a Representative from Michigan;
born in Shelburne, Chittenden County, Vt., February
26, 1800; attended the common schools; elected as
a Democrat Delegate to the Twenty-third Congress
(March 4, 1833-March 3, 1835); served as a member
of the convention which framed the State constitution
in 1835; upon the admission of Michigan as a State
into |
| the Union was elected as a Democrat
to the United States Senate and served from January
26, 1837, to March 3, 1839; appointed Indian
commissioner at La Pointe, Wis., in 1839; elected as
a Democrat to the Twenty-eighth Congress (March 4,
1843-March 3, 1845); died
in Detroit, Mich., September 24, 1851. |
View Lyon Portrait Detail
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Lifesize figure of the poet 'Keats' Cast
in bronze and installed in an existing stone niche in the
grounds of Guys College hospital, Central London.
See Head Close-ups..See
Article In the News for
the Unveiling Ceremony.
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