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1949 in Michigan

Events from the year 1949 in Michigan.

Top stories

The Associated Press polled editors of its member newspapers in Michigan and ranked the state's top news stories of 1949 as follows:

  1. The March 1 "lonely hearts" murders of a widow and her three-year-old granddaughter in Grand Rapids. The killers were Raymond Fernandez and Martha Beck. (274 points)
  2. The shooting UAW leader Victor G. Reuther (224 points)
  3. A historic contract between the UAW and Ford Motor granting pensions to workers (175 points)
  4. The speed-up strike against Ford that began in May and lasted 26 days (169 points)
  5. The July 19 death of U.S. Supreme Court Justice and former Michigan Governor Frank Murphy (129 points)
  6. Record production by the automobile industry and shutdowns resulting from the steelworkers strike (115)
  7. The March 31 death of Willard Dow, president of Dow Chemical, and his wife and three others in a plane crash (98)
  8. Farmer in Waterford shoots 10 people with a shotgun (88)
  9. The "social reform" program of Governor G. Mennen Williams and political battles to institute it (87)
  10. The end of Michigan's one-man grand juries (86)

Office holders

State office holders

Mayors of major cities

Federal office holders

Population

Companies

The following is a list of major companies based in Michigan in 1949.

Sports

Baseball

American football

Basketball

Ice hockey

Boat racing

Boxing

Golfing

Other

Chronology of events

Births

Deaths

  • April 11 - Chase Osborn, 27th Governor of Michigan (1911-1913), at age 89 in Poulan, Georgia
  • June 16 - William Comstock, 33rd Governor of Michigan (1933-1935), at age 71 in Detroit
  • July 19 - Frank Murphy, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States (1940-1949), 35th Governor of Michigan (1937-1939), at age 59 in Detroit

See also

References