No, it wasn’t the relentlessly positive one, but a character named Luren Dickinson, who got the job when Gov. Frank Fitzgerald died in office in 1939. The new governor said prayer gave him a spiritual “pipeline to God,” and that he only needed advice from God and his wife. When the state had a budget deficit, he told all the churches in Michigan to seek divine guidance to fix it. He also vetoed a bill allowing the clipping of horses’ tails, saying “if God wanted horses’ tails to be short, he would have made them short.” That resume might seem to qualify him for a federal cabinet post today, but sadly, it is my duty to tell President Trump that together with Frederick Douglass, Dickinson is very dead.
