Samuel J. Eldersveld

Eldersveld, professor emeritus of political science at the University of Michigan died at his home on March 5, 2010, at the age of 92.

He was instrumental in the creation of Ann Arbor's Human Relations Commission committed to eliminating racial discrimination in housing, banking, business, and education".

Mayor William E. Brown, Jr., had served an unprecedented twelve consecutive years in office, and Eldersveld successfully quashed Brown's bid for a seventh term in the mayor's post.

Eldersveld died of congestive heart failure in Ann Arbor in March 2010.

[6] He was cremated and his ashes interred in the St. Andrews Episcopal Church Memorial Cloister Garden in Ann Arbor.