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Wounded warrior : the rise and fall of Michigan Governor John Swainson / Lawrence M. Glazer.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Glazer, Lawrence M.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Governors--Michigan--Biography.
- Governors.
- Michigan--Politics and government--1951-.
- Michigan.
- Swainson, John B. (John Burley), 1925-1994.
- Swainson, John B.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (347 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- East Lansing : Michigan State University Press, c2010.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Few people today remember John Swainson. As a teenage soldier he lost both legs in a WWII landmine explosion. Back in the United States, following a meteoric political rise in the Michigan State Senate, Swainson was elected as Michigan's youngest governor since Stevens T. Mason. In 1970 Swainson was elected to the Michigan Supreme Court, becoming one of the few public officials to have served in the legislative, executive, and judicial branches of state government. Then, in 1957, he was indicted on federal charges of bribery and perjury, and convicted of lying to a federal
- Contents:
- pt. 1. The rise
- pt. 2. The fall.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-62895-151-6
- 1-60917-206-X
- OCLC:
- 774285357
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