Chase Salmon Osborn (22 January 1860-11 April 1949) was the Republican Governor of Michigan from 2 January 1911 to 1 January 1913, succeeding Fred M. Warner and preceding Woodbridge N. Ferris.
Biography[]
Chase Osborn was born in Huntington County, Indiana in 1860, and he worked as a reporter for the Chicago Tribune in Chicago, Illinois and Evening Wisconsin in Milwaukee, Wisconsin before settling in Florence, Wisconsin and Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan. Osborn continued to work as a newspaper publisher before serving as postmaster of Sault Ste. Marie in 1889, as fish and game warden in 1895, as commissioner of railroads from 1899 to 1903, and as Governor from 1911 to 1913 (campaigning for Theodore Roosevelt in 1912). Osborn later became a supporter of Woodrow Wilson due to his support for internationalism, and he failed in his 1928 bid for the Republican vice-presidential nomination. He served as an Alf Landon presidential elector in 1936 and lobbied Franklin D. Roosevelt for the construction of the Mackinac Bridge in 1939, and he died during a writing retreat to Poulan, Georgia in 1949, having married his former adoptive daughter before dying.