The Governors of Michigan
Kinsley S. Bingham (1808-1861)
- Papers, 1820-1915.
- 1.25 linear ft.
Bingham served as Michigan Democratic congressman, 1847-1851, Republican governor, 1855-1858, and U.S. senator, 1859-1861. Collection includes correspondence and genealogical papers of the Bingham and Warden families of Livingston County, including letters from Kinsley, his wife Mary Warden, his son James (First Lieutenant, Sixteenth Michigan Infantry, who died in 1862), and Robert Warden, Jr.; correspondence concerning family affairs, political and legislative matters, Bingham's inauguration in Lansing,Michigan, in 1857, and the Civil War; letters to Warden from friends in Scotland and Camillus, New York including one from Henry S. Sinn about slavery and the Civil War; and diary, 1862-1863, kept by Mrs. Bingham.