births
July 31, 1925
John Swainson, Canadian-American jurist and politician, 42nd Governor of Michigan (died 1994)
John Swainson
John Burley Swainson was a Canadian-American politician and jurist who served as the 42nd governor of Michigan from 1961 to 1963. Swainson was the last governor of Michigan to not win reelection as governor.
Governor of Michigan
The governor of Michigan is the head of government of the U.S. state of Michigan. The current governor is Gretchen Whitmer, a member of the Democratic Party, who was inaugurated on January 1, 2019, as the state's 49th governor. She was re-elected to serve a second term in 2022. The governor is elected to a four-year term and is limited to two terms.