Ezra Convis ( –1838) was the first speaker of the Michigan House of Representatives and the founder of
Verona, Michigan.
Convis was a native of
Silver Creek, Chautauqua County, New York. He moved to Michigan in 1834 settling first at
Battle Creek and then moving north in 1835 to found the town of Verona. In 1835 he was elected to the new
Michigan House of Representatives
The Michigan House of Representatives is the lower house of the Michigan Legislature. There are 110 members, each of whom is elected from constituencies having approximately 77,000 to 91,000 residents, based on population figures from the 2010 ...
and was chosen as the first speaker of the house. Convis was re-elected in 1837 but died in early 1838 as a result of a sleigh accident that occurred while he was returning to Detroit (then the capital of Michigan) from attending the wedding of a daughter of Mr. Ten Eyck in
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Convis was a
Jacksonian Democrat
Jacksonian democracy was a 19th-century political philosophy in the United States that expanded suffrage to most white men over the age of 21, and restructured a number of federal institutions. Originating with the seventh U.S. president, Andr ...
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Sources
''History of Calhoun County, Michigan p. 313-314''
1838 deaths
Speakers of the Michigan House of Representatives
People from Silver Creek, New York
Year of birth missing
People from Calhoun County, Michigan
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Road incident deaths in Michigan
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