Bingham, Kinsley S
lawyer, jurist, United States senator, governor, was born Dec. 16, 1808, in Camillus, N. Y. He was elected to the Michigan legislature in 1835, and was five years a member of that body-three years as speaker. He was a representative in congress from Michigan from 1847 to 1851; was elected governor of Michigan in 1854 and 1856; and also held in other years the offices of postmaster, supervisor, prosecuting attorney, judge of probate, and brigadier-general of militia. In 1859 he was elected a senator in congress from Michigan, for six years.
He died Oct. 5, 1861, in Oak Grove, Mich.