Governor Horner, Mason's successor, proves to be…
November 1835 CE
Governor Horner, Mason's successor, proves to be extremely unpopular and his tenure is very short.
Residents dislike him so much they burn him in effigy and pelt him with vegetables upon his entry into the territorial capital.
In the October 1835 elections, voters approve the draft constitution and elect the popular Mason as state governor.
The same election sees Isaac E. Crary chosen as Michigan's first U.S. Representative to Congress.
Because of the dispute, however, Congress will refuse to accept his credentials and seats him instead as a non-voting delegate.
The two U.S. Senators chosen by the state legislature in November, Lucius Lyon and John Norvell, will be treated with even less respect, being allowed to sit only as spectators in the Senate gallery.
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