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Bush, Charles Platte

state senator, lieutenant-governor, was born March 18, 1809, in Danby, N. Y. He was a member of the constitutional convention of Michigan; four years a member of the legislature; four years a member of the state senate; and lieutenant-governor of the state of Michigan. He was a presidential elector; delegate to several democratic national conventions; the leader of the movement that located the capital of Michigan at Lansing; and one of the original platters of that city. He died July 4, 1857, in Lansing, Mich.