Aaron Thomas Bliss (22 May 1837-16 September 1906) was a member of the US House of Representatives (R-MI 8) from 4 March 1889 to 3 March 1891 (succeeding Timothy E. Tarsney and preceding Henry M. Youmans) and Governor of Michigan from 1 January 1901 to 1 January 1905 (succeeding Hazen S. Pingree and preceding Fred M. Warner).
Biography[]
Aaron Thomas Bliss was born in Peterboro, New York in 1837, and he worked as a store clerk in Morrisville before serving in the 10th New York Cavalry Regiment during the American Civil War. He survived Confederate prisons after being captured during Wilson's Raid, and he went on to settle in Saginaw, Michigan on the war's end and manufacture lumber. He later bought a mill at Zilwaukee and became a bank director, and he served in the state senate from 1883 to 1884, in the US House of Representatives from 1889 to 1891, and as Governor from 1901 to 1905. He died in 1906.