Events from the year 1962 in Michigan.
The Associated Press selected the top news stories of 1962 in Michigan as follows: George Romney's successful campaign to become Governor of Michigan (AP-1); The end of the Michigan Constitutional Convention (AP-2); The January 30 tragedy in which the Wallenda family, performing a high wire pyramid in front of 7,000 spectators at the Shrine Circus at Detroit's State Fair Coliseum, sustained two deaths and three other injuries when their human pyramid collapsed (AP-3); Record profits and sales in the automobile business (AP-4); Completion of the Sault Ste. Marie International Bridge connecting the twin cities of Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan and Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario (AP-5); The defeat of proposed tax reform in the Michigan Legislature (AP-6); An order by the Michigan Supreme Court directing reapportionment (AP-7) The sinking of the freighter Montrose in the Detroit River after colliding with a barge (AP-8); The dedication of Michigan's first atomic reactor at the Big Rock Point Nuclear Power Plant (AP-9); and John F. Kennedy leading a Democratic onslaught of Cabinet members and party leaders in September (AP-10).
The year's sports highlights in Michigan included the Detroit Lions compiling an 11–3 record with the Fearsome Foursome defensive front, the Michigan Wolverines baseball team's victory in the 1962 College World Series, the 1961–62 Michigan Tech Huskies men's ice hockey team winning the national championship, and Gordie Howe scoring his 500th goal for the Detroit Red Wings.
The year's highlights in Michigan music included a week of sold-out performances by the Metropolitan Opera at the Detroit Masonic Temple and the development of Motown with hits such as Do You Love Me by The Contours, You've Really Got a Hold on Me by The Miracles, Playboy by The Marvelettes, and Two Lovers by Mary Wells.
Office holders
State office holders
Governor of Michigan: John Swainson (Democrat) Lieutenant Governor of Michigan: T. John Lesinski (Democrat) Michigan Attorney General: Frank J. Kelley (Democrat) Michigan Secretary of State: James M. Hare (Democrat) Speaker of the Michigan House of Representatives: Don R. Pears (Republican) Majority Leader of the Michigan Senate: Frank D. Beadle (Republican) Chief Justice, Michigan Supreme Court: John R. Dethmers (Republican)/Leland W. Carr (Democrat)
Mayors of major cities
Mayor of Detroit: Jerome Cavanagh
Mayor of Grand Rapids: Stanley J. Davis
Mayor of Flint: Charles A. Mobley/George R. Poulos
Mayor of Lansing: Willard I. Bowerman, Jr. (Republican) Mayor of Ann Arbor: Cecil Creal (Republican)
Federal office holders
United States Senator from Michigan: Philip Hart (Democrat) United States Senator from Michigan: Patrick V. McNamara (Democrat) United States Representative, District 1: Lucien N. Nedzi (Democrat) United States Representative, District 2: George Meader (Republican) United States Representative, District 3: August E. Johansen (Republican) United States Representative, District 4: Clare Hoffman (Republican) United States Representative, District 5: Gerald Ford (Republican) United States Representative, District 6: Charles E. Chamberlain (Republican) United States Representative, District 7: James G. O'Hara (Democrat) United States Representative, District 8: R. James Harvey (Republican) United States Representative, District 9: Robert P. Griffin (Republican) United States Representative, District 10: Elford Albin Cederberg (Republican) United States Representative, District 11: Victor A. Knox (Republican) United States Representative, District 12: John B. Bennett (Republican) United States Representative, District 13: Charles Diggs (Democrat) United States Representative, District 14: Harold M. Ryan (Democrat) United States Representative, District 15: John Dingell (Democrat) United States Representative, District 16: John Lesinski Jr. (Democrat) United States Representative, District 17: Martha Griffiths (Democrat) United States Representative, District 18: William Broomfield (Republican)