at Michigan, and computer scientist Michael Stonebraker, who also made contributions to database research. Both Codd and Stonebraker are Turing Award winners.
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The university boasts several holders or candidates of the United States presidency, including Gerald Ford, the 38th president and the Republican Party's nominee for president in 1976; Thomas E. Dewey, who was the Republican Party's nominee for president in both 1944 and 1948; Arthur LeSueur, a Socialist candidate for president in 1916; Gilbert Hitchcock, a Democratic candidate in 1928; Arthur Vandenberg, a Republican presidential hopeful in 1948; Ben Carson, a Republican candidate in 2016; and Larry Elder, a Republican candidate in 2024. John Worth Kern and Burton K. Wheeler both ran for the vice presidency, with Kern representing the Democratic Party alongside William Jennings Bryan in 1908, and Wheeler as a Progressive Party's nominee with Robert La Follette Sr. in 1924.
Among the 23 former governors of Michigan who hold …
