Salt Lake Telegram | 1936-10-23 | Page 5 | Nation Mourns Couzens Death

NATION MOURNS COUZENS DEA DEATH TM DETROIT Oct 23 INS The INS The entire entire entire en en- tire nation today mourned the death of one of its leaders leaders Michigan's Michigan's senior senator James Couzens Senator Couzens in poor health for more than a year died late yesterday yesterday yesterday yes yes- in Harper hospital after an emergency operation to relieve a kidney ailment While thousands of messages of condolence including one from President Franklin D D. Roosevelt were sent to Senator Couzens' Couzens family family family fam fam- ily plans were being made for his funeral Last rites will be held Monday at 2 p n. n m. m Senator C Couzens had celebrated his sixty-fourth sixty birthday last August August August Au Au- gust 26 He was born in Chatham Ont and like Thomas Edison started his career as a news butcher on a railroad Coming to this country in 1889 he worked as a car checker for a railroad railroad rail rail- road later for a coal company and then became associated with the theFord theFord theFord Ford Motor company He came up through the ranks there selling his interest in 1919 for approximately in cash A multimillionaire he later accepted accepted accepted ac ac- ac- ac a job as police commissioner served as Detroit's mayor and was appointed to the senate in 1922 He had been there ever since Governor Frank D D. Fitzgerald who holds power to appoint a successor successor successor suc suc- cessor announced none would be named since the senators senator's term expires expires expires ex ex- ex- ex pires in January and there is no session before that time During his lifetime Senator Couns Couzens Couzens Cou Cou- zens ns gave more than haD 2 of f his its vast fortune to charity including including including ing to establish the Michigan Michigan Michigan Mich Mich- igan crippled childrens children's fund It was his boast that that that-he he never used his wealth camp campaigning ign ng In fact he never never campaigned He twice was I el elected to the senate as a Republican can but always was belligerently I liberal His career in the senate would have ended in January since he was defeated for in the September primary He defeated himself political observers said by running as a Republican while in indorsing indorsing indorsing in- in dorsing g President Roosevelt a Democrat