6th Michigan Territorial Council

6th Michigan Territorial Council
6th Michigan Territorial Council
	The Territorial Courthouse in Detroit, later the State Capitol and then a school
Overview
Legislative body	Michigan Territorial Council
Jurisdiction	Michigan Territory, United States
Meeting place	Territorial Courthouse, Detroit
Term	January 7, 1834 – August 25, 1835
Michigan Territorial Council
Members	13 members
President	John McDonell (1st session); Morgan L. Martin (2nd session);
Sessions
1st
1st	January 7, 1834 – March 7, 1834
Extra	September 1, 1834 – September 8, 1834
	November 11, 1834 – December 31, 1834
2nd	January 12, 1835 – March 28, 1835
Special	August 17, 1835 – August 25, 1835

The Sixth Michigan Territorial Council was a meeting of the legislative body governing Michigan Territory, known formally as the Legislative Council of the Territory of Michigan. The council met in Detroit in two regular sessions, one extra session, and one special session between January 7, 1834, and August 25, 1835, during the terms of George B. Porter and Stevens T. Mason as territorial governors.

In addition to the regular business of governing the territory, during these sessions the council dealt with a number of matters related to Michigan's desire for statehood, including petitioning both the United States Congress and President Andrew Jackson for action on the matter, organizing a census of the territory, trying to find a resolution of the ongoing dispute with Ohio known as the Toledo War, and calling a state constitutional convention in order to force Congress to act.

This was the final meeting of the territorial council in its role as the legislative body for all of Michigan Territory. The people of the portion of the territory east of Lake Michigan ratified a state constitution in 1835 that created a new Michigan Legislature, elections for which were held that same year. A 7th Michigan Territorial Council, also known as the Rump Council, was convened in 1836, but was composed of members only from that portion of the territory not governed by the new constitution, which later became the Wisconsin Territory.