Resolution

Senate Concurrent Resolution No. 294

Resolution, "Senate Concurrent Resolution No. 294," commemorating the 170th birthday of Stevens T. Mason, issued by the Michigan Legislature in 1981. The text of the resolution is as follows:

"WHEREAS, October 27, 1981, will mark the 170th anniversary of the birth of Stevens T. Mason, first governor of the State of Michigan and a man whose dynamic leadership helped make ours the great state it is today. This versatile, intelligent, and gifted man, at age nineteen, performed significant public service as Secretary and then as Acting Governor of the then Territory of Michigan. On November 2, 1835, four days after his twenty-fourth birthday, he was elected Governor of the prospective State of Michigan and two years later became the first Governor of the virgin State of Michigan, twenty-sixth state to enter the Union; and
WHEREAS, This incomparable man, sagacious, farsighted, and bold in thought and action, was an innovative leader in the creation of the State of Michigan and in the writing of the first constitution. He further contributed significantly to the establishment of Michigan's public school system and was a founder of the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor; and
WHEREAS, Unfortunately, Stevens T. Mason died at the tender age of thirty-one without the full honors due him for his distinguished public service. In an attempt to remedy that fact the City of Detroit has renovated and improved Capitol Park, the site of the statue and grave of Stevens T. Mason, to pay homage to one of Michigan's greatest leaders; now, therefore, be it
RESOLVED BY THE SENATE (the House of Representatives concurring), That October 27, 1981, the 170th anniversary of the birth of Stevens T. Mason, be proclaimed Stevens T. Mason Day in the State of Michigan and that appropriate celebrations be held to laud this great citizen and public servant; and be it further
RESOLVED, That copies of this resolution be transmitted to the Honorable Coleman Young, Mayor of the City of Detroit; Dr. Harold Shapiro, President of the University of Michigan; and to each intermediate school district of the State of Michigan in recognition of the greatness of Stevens T. Mason.
Adopted by the Senate, September 17, 1981.
Adopted by the House of Representatives, September 21, 1981.
Thomas S. Husband Clerk of the House of Representatives
William C. Kandler Secretary of the Senate."