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| Affiliation | Republican |
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| Name | Thomas W. Palmer |
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, Michigan , United States |
| Email | None |
| Website | None |
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January 25, 1830
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| Died | June 01, 1913
(83 years)
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| Contributor | Thomas Walker |
| Last Modifed | RBH
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| Info | PALMER, Thomas Witherell, Senator from Michigan; born in Detroit, Mich., January 25, 1830; attended the public schools, Thompson’s Academy in Palmer (now St. Clair), Mich., and the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor; traveled to Spain and South America; engaged in lumbering and agricultural pursuits; served on the Board of Estimates of Detroit in 1873; member, State senate 1879-1880; elected as a Republican to the United States Senate and served from March 4, 1883, to March 3, 1889; was not a candidate for reelection; chairman, Committee on Fisheries (Forty-ninth Congress), Committee on Agriculture and Forestry (Fiftieth Congress); appointed United States Minister to Spain in 1889 by President Benjamin Harrison and served for two years; president of the National Commission of the World’s Columbian Exposition at Chicago 1890-1893; retired to his Wayne County farm near Detroit, Mich.; one of the founders of the Detroit Museum of Art; died in Detroit, Mich., June 1, 1913; interment in Elmwood Cemetery.
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