Gary M. Owen (born September 9, 1944) is a Democratic

Michigan Michigan () is a state in the Great Lakes region of the upper Midwestern United States. With a population of nearly 10.12 million and an area of nearly , Michigan is the 10th-largest state by population, the 11th-largest by area, and the ...

politician who served as a member and as Speaker of the

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 ...

. Upon his election, Owen was appointed to the House Appropriations Committee, the first-ever freshman appointed to that committee in history. The main building for the Eastern Michigan University College of Business is named after Owen.

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Living people 1944 births Speakers of the Michigan House of Representatives Democratic Party members of the Michigan House of Representatives University of Michigan alumni People from Lawrence County, Alabama 20th-century American politicians {{Michigan-politician-stub