John Judson Bagley (24 July 1832-27 July 1881) was the Republican Governor of Michigan from 1 January 1873 to 3 January 1877, succeeding Henry P. Baldwin and preceding Charles Croswell.
Biography[]
John Judson Bagley was born in Medina, New York in 1832 and raised in Lockport and Constantine, Michigan. At the age of thirteen, Bagley settled in Owosso, and finally moved to Detroit in 1847 and became a tobacconist and Freemason. Bagley served on the Detroit Board of Education from 1855 to 1858, helped found the Republican Party, served as a city alderman and on the Common Council from 1860 to 1861, on the Detroit Board of Police Commissioners from 1865 to 1872, as a life insurance company president, as chairman of the Michigan Republican Party from 1868 to 1870, and as Governor from 1873 to 1877, overseeing railroad regulations, measures to combat juvenile delinquency, and the establishment of health and fish commissions. He died in San Francisco in 1881.