The People, On The Relation Of The Attorney-general, Vs. The Regents Of The University Of Michigan. Application For Mandamus. Brief Of Respondents. A. Felch, Attorney For Respondents...
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The People, On The Relation Of The Attorney-General, Vs. The Regents Of The University Of Michigan. Application For Mandamus. Brief Of Respondents. A. Felch, Attorney For Respondents
University of Michigan. Board of Regents, Alpheus Felch
Printed at the Argus office, 1874
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Alpheus Felch Historical Library
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Alpheus Felch was the fifth Governor of Michigan and U. S. Senator from Michigan.
Background
Alpheus Felch was born at Limerick, Maine, the son of Captain Daniel Felch, a country merchant, and Sally Piper. His grandfather, Abijah Felch, had been a revolutionary soldier and a prominent citizen. When his mother died in 1808, leaving him an orphan, Alpheus lived successively with his grandfathers and with an aunt.
Education
He attended the Academy in Limerick, then in 1821 entered Phillips Exeter Academy in New Hampshire.
In 1823 he enrolled at Bowdoin College, where he graduated in 1827, and in the same year he took up the study of law.
Career
Three years later he was admitted to the bar at Bangor, Me. Fie began his practise at Houlton, Maine, where one of his sisters lived, but on account of his weak lungs, he was advised by a physician to go West. He left 1833. Traveling by stage, steamer, and canal- boat, until he reached Monroe, Mich. From there he planned to go South, but when he arrived in Cincinnati, he contracted cholera. Returning to Monroe, he began to practise law. In 1834 he was elected village attorney, and in the next year he became a member of the state legislature. Thereafter he was successively state bank commissioner (1838), auditor-general (1842), justice of the state supreme court (1843), and governor. This last office he filled from January 1, 1846, to March 3, 1847. In 1846 he was elected to the United States Senate, as a Democrat, and served for one term. His career in Washington was not brilliant; his speeches were relatively few and caused no great stir. Nevertheless he won general respect, due to the fact that he never prepared a speech without thorough research. That he was exceedingly painstaking is shown by his speech against the French spoliation claims, and the speech on land grants to Iowa. Largely through his efforts a bill was passed by the Senate providing for the construction of a canal at Sault Ste. Marie, which finally was enacted. In 1853, at the conclusion of his senatorial term, he was appointed president of a commission to adjust and settle the Spanish and Mexican land claims under the treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo. In 1856 Felch opened a law office in Ann Arbor, Mich. He had made his home there since 1843. He was greatly interested in the rising university, and upon his death left to it more than 4, 000 books and pamphlets. He died in Ann Arbor, survived by five children. His written works include a few articles on Michigan history which appeared in the Michigan Pioneer and Historical Collections.