Sidney Fine (historian)
Sidney Fine (1920-2009) was a professor of history at the University of Michigan. He authored many books on Frank Murphy, who served successively as mayor of Detroit, governor of Michigan, U.S. attorney general and associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court. He was a Guggenheim Fellow and twice the winner of the University of Michigan Press Award. He received the University of Michigan's Distinguished Faculty Achievement Award in 1969. He died on March 31, 2009 at the age of 86.
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