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This is a list of mayors of Detroit, Michigan. See History of Detroit, Michigan, for more information about the history of the incorporation of the city.

Since 1915 all Detroit mayoral elections have been held on a non-partisan basis. After that date party affiliations did not appear on city election ballots, and so the party affiliations shown below are not official and are either those given publicly by the Mayors themselves or have been assumed from their political views and associations.

The official residence of the Mayor of Detroit is Manoogian Mansion, located on Dwight Street in the Berry Subdivision Historic District, on the city's east side.

Contents 1 First incorporation 2 Reincorporation 3 Notes 4 External links

[edit] First incorporation

#	Name	Term	Notes
1	Solomon Sibley	1806
2	Elijah Brush	1806	[1]

[edit] Reincorporation

#	Mayor		Term	Party	Notes
1		John R. Williams	1824 – 1825		wrote the City Charter
2		Henry Jackson Hunt	1826		uncle of Civil War General Henry Jackson Hunt
3		Jonathan Kearsley	1826
4		John Biddle	1827 – 1828	Anti-Jacksonian	resigned to serve as Michigan Territory delegate to the United States House of Representatives
5		Jonathan Kearsley	1829		second time as Mayor
6		John R. Williams	1830		second time as Mayor
7		Marshall Chapin	1831
8		Levi Cook	1832
9		Charles Christopher Trowbridge	1834	Whig	resigned due to a cholera epidemic; later ran for Governor of Michigan
10		Andrew Mack	1834
11		Levi Cook	1835 – 1836		second time as Mayor
12		Henry Howard	1837
13		Augustus Seymour Porter	1838	Whig	resigned to serve as United States Senator for Michigan
14		Asher B. Bates	1838	Whig	later served as Attorney General for the Kingdom of Hawaii
15		De Garmo Jones	1839
16		Zina Pitcher	1840 – 1841
17		Douglass Houghton	1842	Democratic	noted geologist
18		Zina Pitcher	1843		second time as Mayor
19		John R. Williams	1844 – 1847		third time as Mayor
20		James A. VanDyke	1847
21		Frederick Buhl	1848
22		Charles D. Howard	1849 – 1850
23		John Ladue	1850 – 1851
24		Zachariah Chandler	1851 – 1852	Whig	later served as United States Senator for Michigan and United States Secretary of the Interior
25		John H. Harmon	1852 – 1853
26		Oliver Moulton Hyde	1854 – 1855
27		Henry Ledyard	1855 – 1856
28		Oliver Moulton Hyde	1856 – 1857		second time as Mayor
29		John Patton	1858 – 1859
30		Christian H. Buhl	1860 – 1861
31		William C. Duncan	1862 – 1863
32		Merrill I. Mills	1866 – 1867
33		William W. Wheaton	1868 – 1871
34		Hugh Moffat	1872 – 1875
35		Alexander Lewis	1876 – 1877
36		George C. Langdon	1878 – 1879
37		William G. Thompson	1880 – 1883	Republican
38		Stephen Benedict Grummond	1884 – 1885
39		M. H. Chamberlain	1886 – 1887
40		John Pridgeon, Jr.	1888 – 1889
41		Hazen S. Pingree	1890 – 1897	Republican	resigned to serve as Governor of Michigan
42		William Rickert	1897
43		William C. Maybury	1897 – 1904	Democratic	ran unsuccessfully for Governor of Michigan in 1900
44		George P. Codd	1905 – 1906	Republican	later served in the United States House of Representatives
45		William Barlum Thompson	1907 – 1908
46		Philip Breitmeyer	1909 – 1910
47		William Barlum Thompson	1911 – 1912		second time as Mayor
48		Oscar Marx	1913 – 1918	Republican
49		James J. Couzens	1919 – 1922	Republican	resigned to serve as United States Senator for Michigan
50		John C. Lodge	1922 – 1923
51		Frank Ellsworth Doremus	1923 – 1924	Democratic Party	previously served in the United States House of Representatives
52		Joseph Martin	1924
53		John C. Lodge	1924		second time as Mayor
54		John Smith	1924 – 1927
55		John C. Lodge	1927 – 1929		third time as Mayor
56		Charles Bowles	1930	Democratic	recalled from office due to ties with the Ku Klux Klan
57		Frank Murphy	1930 – 1933	Democratic	later served as Gover-General of the Phillippines, Governor of Michigan, and Supreme Court Justice
58		Frank Couzens	1933 – January 4, 1938
59		Richard Reading	January 4, 1938 – January 2, 1940
60		Edward Jeffries	January 2, 1940 – January 6, 1948
61		Eugene Van Antwerp	January 6, 1948 – January 3, 1950
62		Albert Cobo	January 3, 1950 – September 12, 1957	Republican	died in office
63		Louis Miriani	September 12, 1957 – January 2, 1962	Republican
64		Jerome Cavanagh	January 2, 1962 – January 6, 1970	Democratic	later ran for Governor of Michigan
65		Roman Gribbs	January 6, 1970 – January 1, 1974	Democratic
66		Coleman Young	January 1, 1974 – January 3, 1994	Democratic	first African-American mayor; longest-serving mayor
67		Dennis Archer	January 3, 1994 – January 4, 2002	Democratic
68		Kwame Kilpatrick	January 4, 2002 – September 18, 2008	Democratic	resigned due to scandal and ensuing felony conviction
69		Kenneth Cockrel, Jr.	September 18, 2008 – May 11, 2009	Democratic
70		Dave Bing	May 11, 2009 – present	Democratic

[edit] Notes

[edit] External links

• The Early Government of Detroit

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