Charles P. Bush

Charles P. Bush (born March 18, 1809 in Ithaca , New York , †  1857 in Lansing , Michigan ) was an American politician . In 1847 and 1848 he was lieutenant governor of the state of Michigan.

Career

In 1836, Charles Bush came to the newly formed state of Michigan, where he embarked on a political career as a member of the Democratic Party . There he became a successful farmer. In the presidential election of 1844 he was one of the electors who officially elected James K. Polk as US President . In the years 1840 and 1841 and from 1842 to 1843 he sat as a member of the House of Representatives from Michigan ; from 1846 to 1847 and again between 1855 and 1856 he was a member of the State Senate . In 1847 he was its President Pro Tempore .

After the resignation of Governor Alpheus Felch , who moved to the US Senate , his lieutenant governor William L. Greenly moved up to the office of governor. According to the state constitution, the President Pro Tempore of the State Senate, Charles Bush, became the acting lieutenant governor of his state. He held this office between March 4, 1847 and January 3, 1848. He was Deputy Governor and Official Chairman of the Michigan Senate. He gave the decisive vote to move the state capital from Detroit to Lansing. In 1850, Bush participated as a delegate to a constitutional convention in his state. In June 1852 he was a delegate to the Democratic National Convention in Baltimore , on which Franklin Pierce was nominated as a presidential candidate. Charles Bush also drafted the Michigan bill to abolish the death penalty . He died in 1857 after a long illness. The place of death and the exact date of death are not recorded.

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