# @detroitfreepress on Instagram

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- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/DUBKCJKjBE5
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/79310232-detroitfreepress-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2026-01-27T14:49:39.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Detroit Free Press (@detroitfreepress) — https://gondola.cc/detroitfreepress

## Caption

Richard Whitmer — Gov. Gretchen Whitmer's father — who served as Commerce Secretary to Gov. William Milliken and as CEO of Blue Cross/Blue Shield of Michigan, died Monday, Jan. 26.

But for the governor, "he was just dad," she said in a statement issued in the wake of his death at age 85.

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