{{Use American English|date=July 2025}} {{Use mdy dates|date=July 2023}} {{Infobox settlement |official_name = Champion, Michigan |settlement_type = Unincorporated community |nickname = |motto =
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==History== A post office called Champion has been in operation since 1869, taking its name from the nearby Champion Iron Mine<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.postalhistory.com/postoffices.asp?task=display&state=MI&county=Marquette | title=Marquette County | publisher=Jim Forte Postal History | accessdate=28 February 2015}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|author=Chicago and North Western Railway Company|title=A History of the Origin of the Place Names Connected with the Chicago & North Western and Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis & Omaha Railways|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OspBAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA54|year=1908|page=54}}</ref> Finnish-American accordionist Viola Turpeinen was born in Champion in 1909.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Viola Turpeinen |url=https://www.musicforaccordion.com/inform/viola/viola01.htm |access-date=2024-08-02 |website=www.musicforaccordion.com}}</ref>
==See also== *Sam Cohodas Lodge
==References== {{Reflist}}
{{Marquette County, Michigan}}
Category:Unincorporated communities in Marquette County, Michigan Category:Unincorporated communities in Michigan
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