![]() | Wounded Warrior: The Rise and Fall of Michigan Governor John Swainson Subjects: Swainson John B. (John Burley) 1925–1994; Governors -- Michigan -- Biography; Michigan -- Politics and government -- 1951–; Few people today remember John Swainson. As a teenage soldier he lost both legs in a WWII landmine explosion. Back in the United States, following a meteoric political rise in the Michigan State Senate, Swainson was elected as Michigan's youngest governor since Stevens T. Mason. Lawrence M. Glazer has served as an assistant Michigan Attorney General, as chief legal adviser to Michigan governor James Blanchard, and as a State Circuit Judge. |
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