Zina Pitcher

Infobox Mayor
name = Zina Pitcher


caption =
order = 18^th Mayor of Detroit
term_start = 1843
term_end = 1843
predecessor = Douglass Houghton
successor = John R. Williams
order2 = 16^th Mayor of Detroit
term_start2 = 1840
term_end2 = 1841
predecessor2 = De Garmo Jones
successor2 = Douglass Houghton
birth_date = April 12, 1797
birth_place = Sandy Hill, New York
death_date = April 5, 1872
death_place = Detroit, Michigan
constituency =
party =
alma_mater = Middlebury College
spouse =
profession = physician
religion =


footnotes =

Zina Pitcher (April 12, 1797, Sandy Hill, New York–April 5, 1872, Detroit) was an American physician, politician, educator, and academic administrator. He was a president of the American Medical Association, a two-time mayor of Detroit and a member of the Board of Regents of the University of Michigan.

Biography

Early life

Zina Pitcher was born in Sandy Hill, New York on April 12, 1797. He was the younger brother of Nathaniel Pitcher, a future Governor of New York. He attended Middlebury College in Vermont and graduated in medicine in 1822. He joined the Army that year as an assistant surgeon, and was promoted to the rank of major in 1836 as a full surgeon. He was president of the Army Medical Board in 1835, and resigned from the Army at the end of 1836.harvnb|Wilson|Fiske|1888|p=31]

He moved to Detroit, and was elected mayor for two separate terms, once from 1840-1841 and again in 1843. He was also a regent of the University of Michigan from 1837 until 1852. He served as president of the American Medical Association from 1856-1857, presiding over its annual meeting in Detroit.

He died in Detroit on April 5, 1872 and is buried in Elmwood Cemetery. [harvnb|Franck|1996|p=42]

Commemoration

* The Zina Pitcher Collegiate Professorship of the History of Medicine at the University of Michigan Medical School
* Zina Pitcher Place, a street in front of the University of Michigan Medical Center

Notes

References

* Citation
last = Franck
first = Michael S.
title = Elmwood Endures: History of a Detroit Cemetery
year = 1996
publisher = Wayne State University
publication-place = Detroit
url = http://books.google.com/books?id=Q0KBYj8v_ZMC
isbn = 0814325912
* Citation
last = Wilson
first = James G.
last2 = Fiske
first2 = John
year = 1888
title = Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography
url = http://books.google.com/books?id=lPPcZiJcLuUC&pg=PA31
pages = 31

External links

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