George Allen Prescott (March 6, 1913 – February 1988) was a

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member of the

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representing the northeastern part of the

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between 1967 and 1978. A native of

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, Prescott graduated from

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and

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. He was

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clerk from 1951 until his election to the House. Prescott was the third generation of his family elected to the Legislature (his grandfather, George A. Prescott, was a

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in the late 1890s and secretary of state in the early 1900s, and his uncle, Charles T. Prescott, was a state senator from 1945 to 1961).1977-1978 Michigan Manual
George A. Prescott
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