It's not often I can recommend a column by the conservative Dawson Bell of the Detroit Free Press, but then, a stopped clock has the right time twice every 24 hours. And he has the right time with today's column about Chase Osborn, a maverick Republican Governor from 1910-1912, who also served as one of the state's first game wardens. I encountered this character first in writing "Ruin and Recovery," a conservation history of Michigan; and more recently encountered him again in researching the biography of Governor William G. Milliken (out about a year from now, if you're wondering). The elderly Osborn and young Milliken had a regular correspondence in which the former advised the latter on how to be a politician while maintaining your principles.
http://www.freep.com/news/politics/eyeonpolitics11e_20041011.htm
Posted by Dave at October 11, 2004 10:07 AM