Mar 07, 2021 · Frank Kelley, Michigan's "eternal general", who served 37 years as Michigan attorney general and holds the record for the longest-serving attorney general in …
Mar 06, 2021 · In this Dec. 16, 1998, photo, Attorney General Frank Kelley speaks about his retirement at the end of the year in his Lansing office.
Mar 06, 2021 · LANSING – Frank Kelley, Michigan’s “eternal general” whose 37 years in office made him the longest-serving attorney general in Michigan history, has died at …
Mar 06, 2021 · “Having served as Michigan’s attorney general for 37 years, he was, on his retirement in 1999, the longest serving state attorney general in the country, earning the nickname of the “Eternal ...
Kelley's death was due to natural causes and not related to COVID-19, said family spokesman and former Attorney General's Office spokesman Chris De Witt. Kelley, a Democrat who made consumer protection one of his trademark issues, played a major role in environmental protection in Michigan and helped to pass into law the Michigan Open Meetings Act ...
Kelley was born in Detroit in 1924. His father ran a speakeasy during Prohibition, later chaired the Michigan delegation to the 1948 Democratic Convention, casting Michigan’s votes for Harry S. Truman, and headed the state’s largest mental hospital. Frank Kelley worked on car ferries at the Straits of Mackinac before the construction ...
LANSING – Frank Kelley, Michigan’s “eternal general” whose 37 years in office made him the longest-serving attorney general in Michigan history, has died at age 96. Kelley died late Friday night at an assisted living home in Naples, Florida, where he had moved in 2020; he had been ill for some time, his family said in a news release.
He loved the law and his loyalty to the people of Michigan was unwavering.". Kelley was Michigan's longest-serving attorney general and had been the longest-serving in the nation until recently, when Tom Miller of Iowa surpassed his length of service.
After leaving the Attorney General’s Office, Kelley represented large corporations through the Lansing lobbying and law firm he founded, Kelley Cawthorne. He later sold his interest in the firm and in 2015 retired from his consulting role there. “I think everybody should slow down at 90 and just enjoy life," he said.
Former Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm, who is now U.S. energy secretary and who succeeded Kelley as Michigan attorney general, said Kelley was her first political mentor in state government, "with an Irishman’s gift of humor and a fierce heart for the average working person.".
Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan President and CEO Dan Loepp, who also worked for Kelley in the Attorney General's Office, said Kelley "made a better life for the people of Michigan and set an amazing example for those who worked for him, with him or were inspired by him.".