who won the governor election in michigan?
Rick Snyder
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 Democratic Senator and former Governor Evan Bayh of Indiana began a movement for the 2008 Democratic nomination for president of the United States shortly following the 2004 presidential election . 

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 Former United States President John Quincy Adams , who at the time represented Massachusetts in Congress , backed Michigan 's claim . In 1833 , when Congress rejected Michigan 's request for a convention , Adams summed up his opinion on the dispute : " Never in the course of my life have I known a controversy of which all the right was so clearly on one side and all the power so overwhelmingly on the other . " 

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 Having entered politics by participating in a state constitutional convention to rewrite the Michigan Constitution during 1961 – 1962 , Romney was elected Governor of Michigan in 1962 . Re @-@ elected by increasingly large margins in 1964 and 1966 , he worked to overhaul the state 's financial and revenue structure , greatly expanding the size of state government and introducing Michigan 's first state income tax . Romney was a strong supporter of the American Civil Rights Movement . He briefly represented moderate Republicans against conservative Republican Barry Goldwater during the 1964 U.S. presidential election . He requested the intervention of federal troops during the 1967 Detroit riot . 

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 Seven men have resigned the office of governor before the end of their terms — John J. Crittenden , Beriah Magoffin , John W. Stevenson , Augustus O. Stanley , Happy Chandler , Earle C. Clements , and Wendell H. Ford . Six resigned to accept a higher office : Crittenden was appointed Attorney General of the United States and the other five were elected to the U.S. Senate . Only Beriah Magoffin resigned under duress . A Confederate sympathizer during the Civil War , Magoffin 's power was entirely checked by a hostile , pro @-@ Union legislature . With the state 's government in gridlock , Magoffin agreed to resign in exchange for being able to name his successor . Lieutenant Governor Linn Boyd had died in office , and the Speaker of the Senate , John F. Fisk , was not acceptable to Magoffin as a successor . Fisk resigned as Speaker , and the Senate elected Magoffin 's choice , James Fisher Robinson as Speaker . Magoffin then resigned , Robinson was elevated to governor , and Fisk was re @-@ elected as Speaker of the Senate . 

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 Mason 's successor Horner proved to be extremely unpopular as governor and his tenure was very short . Residents disliked him so much they burned him in effigy and pelted him with vegetables upon his entry into the territorial capital . In the October 1835 elections , voters approved the draft constitution and elected the popular Mason as state governor . The same election saw Isaac E. Crary chosen as Michigan 's first U.S. Representative to Congress . Because of the dispute , however , Congress refused to accept his credentials and seated him instead as a non @-@ voting delegate . The two U.S. Senators chosen by the state legislature in November , Lucius Lyon and John Norvell , were treated with even less respect , being allowed to sit only as spectators in the Senate gallery . 
