Alonzo sessions

Alonzo Sessions (born August 4, 1810 in Marcellus , New York , †  July 3, 1886 in Ionia , Michigan ) was an American politician . Between 1877 and 1881 he was lieutenant governor of the state of Michigan.

Career

Alonzo Sessions attended public schools in his home country and then taught for some time. He was a shop clerk in Bennington for two years . In 1833 he left New York State and acquired land in what was then the Michigan Territory . In the meantime he worked as a teacher in Dayton ( Ohio ) until 1835 . He then managed his farm in Michigan near the town of Berlin . There he was also politically active. He became the mayor of his new home ward and a member of the Ionia County County Council . He was also a justice of the peace for eight years and sheriff in 1841 and 1842 . He was also the co-founder, director and president of the First National Bank of Ionia .

In the 1850s Sessions joined the Republican Party . Between 1857 and 1862 he was a member of the Michigan House of Representatives . In the presidential election of 1872 he was one of the electors who officially elected President Ulysses S. Grant in his second term. In 1876, Sessions was elected Lieutenant Governor of Michigan alongside Charles Croswell . He held this office between 1877 and 1881. He was Deputy Governor and Chairman of the State Senate . He died in Ionia on July 3, 1886.

Web links

• Alonzo sessions in the database of Find a Grave (English)
• The Political Graveyard
• biography