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In 1846 a State Senator was to be elected from this district; consisting of Oakland, Lapeer, Genesee, Saginaw and Shiawassee counties. The nomination in 'the Democatic party was conceded to Shiawassee county, and the universal sentiment of the district was that I should take the nomination, which, as the parties then stood, was equivalent to an election. If there was to be no action on the capitol question I certainly did not want the nomination (my friends believing there would be no change of the capitol under ten years), and as Mr. Andrew Parsons, of Corunna, a young and warm friend of mine, whom I had fostered and assisted to many official positions in the county, greatly desired the nomination, and as my services as treasurer were urged as a necessity, I consented to take the re-nomination for the treas-urership and give over the senatorship to Parsons. He was elected, but before surrendering my claim to the nomination for senator I had a full understanding with him, that, in the event of an effort to change the capitol, he would stand by Owosso in its efforts to secure the location.
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