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This is a list of mayors of Grand Rapids, Michigan. [1] [2] ... George E. Ellis 1905 1915 Republican 39 George P. Tilma 1916 1917 Republican 40 Philo C. Fuller
Edwin F. Sweet — U.S. Congressman, mayor of Grand Rapids [16] Jerald terHorst — press secretary under President Gerald Ford; Edwin F. Uhl — U.S. Assistant Secretary of State ; mayor of Grand Rapids [16] Arthur H. Vandenberg — 88th President pro tempore of the U.S. Senate [26] Guy Vander Jagt — U.S. Congressman from Michigan [27]
The 1911 Grand Rapids furniture workers' strike was a general strike performed by furniture workers in Grand Rapids, which was then a national leader of furniture production. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Furniture businessmen of Grand Rapids held control of the city's industry and banking sectors, growing so influential that they were able to price fix national ...
After the French established territories in Michigan, Jesuit missionaries and traders traveled down Lake Michigan and its tributaries. [7]In 1806, white trader Joseph La Framboise and his Métis wife, Madeline La Framboise, traveled by canoe from Mackinac Island and established the first trading post in West Michigan in present-day Grand Rapids on the banks of the Grand River, near what is now ...
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He currently resides in his hometown of Grand Rapids, Michigan and spends his free time speaking to youth to encourage and motivate them, signing autographs and speaking to foster children. Buster Mathis is now the vice president of a non-profit, Buster Mathis Inc. (www.thebullybuster.org) and offers elementary children the Bully Buster ...
By the late 1800s, Grand Rapids was a major hub for furniture production. In 1874, Charles R. Sligh Sr. began working for the Berkey & Gay Company as a salesman. [2] In 1880, he decided to strike out on his own, and raised $10,500 to incorporate Sligh Furniture Company. The company purchased a plot of land and constructed a 15,000 square foot ...
Davis Technical High School was a member of the Grand Rapids City League from the 1920s until 1943, when its building was turned over to Grand Rapids Junior College. Grand Rapids South High School, alma mater of former U.S. President Gerald R. Ford , was a league member until the school was closed in 1967.