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Events from the year 1947 in Michigan.

Top stories

The Associated Press polled editors of its member newspapers in Michigan and ranked the state's top news stories of 1947 as follows:[1]

  1. Death of Henry Ford (227 points)
  2. Judge Frank Albert Picard decision (143 points)
  3. Terpenning murder (137 points)
  4. Corrections department probe (134 points)
  5. UAW contracts with GM, Ford, and Chrysler (129 points)
  6. 1947 Michigan Wolverines football team (117 points)
  7. Spring floods (103 points)
  8. Budget dilemma (94 points)
  9. Skillman grand jury (59 points)
  10. Detroit Tigers' sale of Hank Greenberg to the Pittsburgh Pirates (51 points)

Office holders

State office holders

Mayors of major cities

Federal office holders

Population

In the 1940 United States census, Michigan was recorded as having a population of 5,256,106, ranking as the seventh most populous state in the country. By 1950, Michigan's population had increased by 21.2% to 6,371,766.

Cities

The following is a list of cities in Michigan with a population of at least 20,000 based on 1940 U.S. Census data. Historic census data from 1930 and 1950 is included to reflect trends in population increases or decreases. Cities that are part of the Detroit metropolitan area are shaded in tan.

1940
Rank 		City County 1940 Pop. 1946 Est. 1950 Pop. Change 1940-50
1 Detroit Wayne 1,623,452 1,815,000[2] 1,849,568 13.9%
2 Grand Rapids Kent 164,292 176,515 7.4%
3 Flint Genesee 151,543 163,143 7.7%
4 Saginaw Saginaw 82,794 92,918 12.2%
5 Lansing Ingham 78,753 90,000[3] 92,129 17.0%
6 Pontiac Oakland 66,626 73,681 10.6%
7 Dearborn Wayne 63,589 94,994 49.4%
8 Kalamazoo Kalamazoo 54,097 57,704 6.7%
9 Highland Park Wayne 50,810 46,393 −8.7%
10 Hamtramck Wayne 49,839 48,938[4] 43,555 −12.6%
11 Jackson Jackson 49,656 51,088 2.9%
12 Bay City Bay 47,956 52,523 9.5%
13 Muskegon Muskegon 47,697 48,429 1.5%
14 Battle Creek Calhoun 43,453 48,666 12.0%
15 Port Huron St. Clair 32,759 35,725 9.1%
16 Wyandotte Wayne 30,618 36,846 20.3%
17 Ann Arbor Washtenaw 29,815 48,251 61.8%
18 Royal Oak Oakland 25,087 46,898 86.9%
19 Ferndale Oakland 22,523 29,675 31.8%

Counties

The following is a list of counties in Michigan with populations of at least 75,000 based on 1940 U.S. Census data. Historic census data from 1930 and 1950 are included to reflect trends in population increases or decreases.

1940
Rank 		County Largest city 1930 Pop. 1940 Pop. 1950 Pop. Change 1940-50
1 Wayne Detroit 1,888,946 2,015,623 2,435,235 20.8%
2 Oakland Pontiac 211,251 254,068 396,001 55.9%
3 Kent Grand Rapids 240,511 246,338 288,292 17.0%
4 Genesee Flint 211,641 227,944 270,963 18.9%
5 Ingham Lansing 116,587 130,616 172,941 32.4%
6 Saginaw Saginaw 120,717 130,468 153,515 17.7%
7 Macomb Warren 77,146 107,638 184,961 71.8%
8 Kalamazoo Kalamazoo 91,368 100,085 126,707 26.6%
9 Jackson Jackson 92,304 93,108 108,168 16.2%
10 Muskegon Muskegon 84,630 94,501 121,545 28.6%
11 Calhoun Battle Creek 87,043 94,206 120,813 28.2%

Companies

The following is a list of major companies based in Michigan in 1947.

Company 1947 sales (millions) 1947 net earnings (millions) Headquarters Core business
General Motors Detroit Automobiles
Ford Motor Company na na[5] Automobiles
Chrysler Automobiles
Studebaker Corp. Automobiles
Briggs Mfg. Co. Detroit Automobile parts supplier
S. S. Kresge Retail
Hudson Motor Car Co. Detroit Automobiles
Detroit Edison Electric utility
Michigan Bell Telephone utility
Kellogg's Battle Creek Breakfast cereal
Parke-Davis Detroit Pharmaceutical
REO Motor Car Co. Lansing Automobiles
Burroughs Adding Machine Business machines

Sports

Baseball

American football

Basketball

Ice hockey

Boat racing

Boxing

Golfing

Other

Chronology of events

Main article: 1947 in the United States

Births

  • March 12 - Mitt Romney, businessman and politician who served as Governor of Massachusetts (2003-2007) and the Republican presidential candidate (2012), in Detroit
  • April 21 - Iggy Pop, singer, songwriter, musician, producer and actor, and vocalist of The Stooges, in Muskegon, Michigan
  • August 5 - Bernie Carbo, Major League Baseball outfielder (1969–1980), in Detroit

Deaths

  • April 7 - Henry Ford, founder of Ford Motor Co., at age 83 in Dearborn

See also

References

  1. ^ "Ford Death Voted Top Michigan News Story". The Lansing State Journal. January 1, 1948. p. 4 – via Newspapers.com.
  2. ^ "L.A. Gives the Count to Detroit". Detroit Free Press. July 28, 1946. p. 1 – via Newspapers.com.
  3. ^ "City Needs 7,000 Homes". Lansing State Journal. March 10, 1946. p. 23 – via Newspapers.com.
  4. ^ "Unusual Statistics Of State Revealed". Lansing State Journal. January 25, 1946. p. 18 – via Newspapers.com.
  5. ^ Ford was a privately held company until 1956. Accordingly, its financial results for 1947 were not made public.
  6. ^ "1947 Detroit Tigers Statistics". Baseball-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved July 10, 2017.
  7. ^ "2012 University of Michigan Baseball Record Book" (PDF). University of Michigan. 2012. pp. 22, 71. Archived from the original (PDF) on March 4, 2016. Retrieved August 9, 2017.
  8. ^ 2012 Record Book, p. 13.
  9. ^ "1947 Detroit Lions Statistics & Players". Pro-Football-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved July 9, 2017.
  10. ^ "1947 Football Team". Bentley Historical Library, University of Michigan. Retrieved July 10, 2017.
  11. ^ "1947 Michigan State Spartans Schedule and Results". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved June 16, 2017.
  12. ^ "1947 Detroit Mercy Titans Schedule and Results". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved November 23, 2015.
  13. ^ "University of Michigan Basketball Record Book" (PDF). University of Michigan. p. 29. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2018-10-26. Retrieved 2017-07-13.
  14. ^ "1946-47 Detroit Red Wings Roster and Statistics". Hockey-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved July 10, 2017.

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