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Michigan's first governor to be reburied
Posted: 08.28.2009 at 5:38 AM
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Read more: State, Stevens T. Mason, Reburried, Detroit

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(AP) -- Detroit is redesigning a downtown park again, and that means Michigan's first governor is relocating as well. Detroit's Downtown Development Authority has approved plans to disinter the body of Stevens T. Mason, who served from 1836 to 1840 as the state's first elected governor, from a grave beneath his statue in the Capitol Park district.

The Detroit Free Press says Mason will be reburied about 100 feet away beneath his relocated statue as part of the redesign. Mason was only 31 when he died of apparent pneumonia in 1843 in New York City. His body was in a New York crypt until 1905, when his family reburied him in Capitol Park. He was disinterred in the 1950s and reburied the last time the city reconfigured the Capitol Park district.

(Copyright ©2009 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)
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