William Hull

William Hull
1823 portrait by Gilbert Stuart
1st Governor of Michigan Territory
In office March 22, 1805 – October 29, 1813
Appointed by	Thomas Jefferson
Succeeded by	Lewis Cass
Personal details
Born	(1753-06-24)June 24, 1753 Derby, Connecticut Colony, British America
Died	November 29, 1825(1825-11-29) (aged 72) Newton, Massachusetts, U.S.
Children	4
Alma mater	Yale College
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Military service
Allegiance	United States
Branch/service	Continental Army United States Army
Years of service	1775-1783, 1812-1814
Rank	Brigadier General
Commands	Army of the Northwest
Battles/wars	American Revolutionary War Battle of White Plains Battle of Trenton Battle of Princeton Battle of Stillwater Battle of Saratoga Battle of Fort Stanwix Battle of Monmouth Battle of Stony Point War of 1812 Siege of Detroit

William Hull (June 24, 1753 – November 29, 1825) was an American military officer and politician. A veteran of the American Revolutionary War, he later served as governor of the Michigan Territory (1805–1813), where he negotiated land cessions with Native Americans through the Treaty of Detroit in 1807. Hull is most widely remembered, as the general in the first months of the War of 1812 (1812–1815), who surrendered Fort Detroit / Shelby to the British Army on August 16, 1812, following the Siege of Detroit. After the siege, he was paroled by the enemy and returned east, but court-martialed, convicted, and sentenced to death in a military court trial by the United States Army and the U.S. War Department, but later received a pardon from fourth President and military commander-in-chief James Madison (1751–1836, served 1809–1817), so his military and personal reputation somewhat recovered. He was assigned to several other commands in the next two years of the war, before the 1815 peace Treaty of Ghent and return to the pre-war status quo with the British.