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Template:Short description Template:Use mdy dates Template:Infobox official post Template:ElectionsMI This is a list of mayors of Detroit, in the U.S. state of Michigan. The current mayor is Mike Duggan,<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> who was sworn into office on January 1, 2014.

History of Detroit's executive authorityEdit

During the earliest part of its history, Detroit was a military outpost, and executive authority was wielded by first French, then British military commandants. Soon after the Detroit area was taken over by American forces, civil authority became more prominent, and executive authority was placed in the hands of a series of appointed officials, elected boards, and elected officials. This included a brief stint in 1806–1809 with a largely ceremonial mayor.

Detroit's current strong mayor system dates from the city's 1824 charter. From 1824 to 1857, mayors were elected to terms of one year; from 1858 to 1953 the term was increased to two years, and after 1953 mayoral terms were four years.<ref name = "historical">Template:Citation</ref>

Early French and British leadershipEdit

During the early part of Detroit's existence, local authority was vested in French and British military commandants. French commandants included:<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Seventeen British commandants led Detroit between 1760 and 1796.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Early American leadershipEdit

When Detroit was turned over to the Americans in 1796, Colonel Jean François Hamtramck was named commander of Detroit, a position he held until his death in 1803.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

The first local rule of Detroit was established in 1802, when Detroit was incorporated as a town.<ref name = "hdm">Template:Citation</ref> The original incorporation provided for a board of trustees to govern the town, the chairman of which was the highest governmental position.<ref name = "gov">Template:Citation</ref> The first chairman of the board, appointed on February 9, 1802, was James Henry. Henry was elected to the position later in the year. Subsequent elections were held in May of each year, with the chairmen of the Board of Trustees being:<ref name = "hdm"/>

  • James Henry (1802–1803)
  • James May (1803–1804)
  • Solomon Sibley (1804–1805)
  • Joseph Wilkinson (elected 1805)

1806 charterEdit

In 1805, a massive fire destroyed the town and effectively eliminated the government. Governor William Hull and Judge Augustus Woodward dissolved the original incorporation, replacing it in 1806 with a government headed by an appointed mayor.<ref name = "hdm"/> However, the position was largely honorary, and the two men who held it (Solomon Sibley and Elijah Brush) each quickly resigned upon realizing the lack of power in the office.<ref name = "gov"/> The legislation creating this mayoral position was repealed in 1809,<ref name = "gov"/> after which de facto political power still resided with Hull and Woodward, and Detroit was without either a mayor or board of trustees until after the War of 1812.<ref name = "hdm"/>

Second Board of TrusteesEdit

After the war, a legislative act in 1815 ended the interregnum and returned political control to the citizens of Detroit through a Board of Trustees, elected yearly. In October of that year, Solomon Sibley was elected as the first chair.<ref name = "gov"/> The chairs elected yearly to this Board were:<ref name = "hdm"/>

  • Solomon Sibley (1815–1816)
  • George McDougall (1816–1817)
  • Abraham Edwards (1817–1818)
  • John R. Williams (1818–1819)
  • James McCloskey (1819–1820)
  • James Abbott (1820–1821)
  • Andrew G. Whitney (1821–1822; 1822–1823)
  • James Abbott (second term, 1823–1824)

1824 charterEdit

In 1824, John R. Williams drew up a new city charter that provided for the first time for a directly elected mayor, with significantly increased executive powers.<ref name = "gov"/> Following approval by the state legislature, Williams became the City of Detroit's first elected mayor.

1918 charter and nonpartisan electionsEdit

In June 1918 Detroit's first home-rule city charter came into effect, following passage by city voters in a referendum. The new charter mandated that all Detroit public offices be non-partisan, and that elections to those positions would be held on a non-partisan basis, with no party designations on the ballot. These provisions have been continued through all subsequent city charter revisions.

Since 1918, all mayoral elections in Detroit have been held on a non-partisan basis, and mayors have officially served unaffiliated with any political party. Thus, the party affiliations given in the chart below for mayors elected after 1918 are not official and are based on the inferences of editors based on available historic information.

Official residenceEdit

Since 1966, the official residence of the Mayor of Detroit has been the Manoogian Mansion, located on Dwight Street in the Berry Subdivision Historic District, facing the Detroit River on the city's east side. The mansion was donated to the city by industrialist Alex Manoogian, founder of the Masco Corporation.

First incorporationEdit

Two mayors served under the 1806 charter.<ref name = "gov"/>

# Name Term Party Notes
1 File:SolomonSibleyDetroit.jpg Solomon Sibley 1806 Democratic<ref name = "bios588">Template:Citation</ref> Solomon Sibley was the author of Detroit's first city charter in 1806, and became the city's first mayor under the charter.<ref name = "gov"/> However, when he found the office powerless in the face of the entrenched governor and judges, he resigned.<ref name = "gov"/> Sibley went on to serve as chair of Detroit's board of trustees during the time between mayoral control,<ref name = "gov"/> and later as a delegate to the United States House of Representatives and as a justice of the Michigan Supreme Court.
2 File:Elijah Brush sm clr wm.jpg Elijah Brush 1806 Elijah Brush was appointed to the mayor's chair after Sibley's resignation, but like Sibley found the position powerless and soon resigned himself.<ref name = "gov"/> He owned the ribbon farm immediately adjacent to Detroit, along which Brush Street now runs. Brush served as a lieutenant colonel in the Territorial Militia, and was taken prisoner during the War of 1812; he died soon after returning to Detroit in 1814.<ref name = "gov"/>

ReincorporationEdit

The following mayors served under the stronger executive mayoral system begun in the 1824 charter:<ref name="library">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }} Note: Term dates come from this DPL citation, save for Mayors Cockrel and Bing, and the second term of Mayor Chapin.</ref>

# Mayor Term Party Notes
1 Mayor Williams John R. Williams 1824–1825 Democratic<ref name="mihistrev">Template:Citation</ref> John R. Williams wrote the City Charter and served from 1824 to 1825 as the first mayor under the re-incorporation.<ref name = "gov"/> He also served a second time in 1830, and a third in 1844–1846. He was a successful merchant, and served in a number of other capacities, including as one of the first trustees of the University of Michigan, was president of the Detroit Board of Education, and was a delegate to the first Michigan Constitutional Convention.<ref name = "michjrw">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation CitationClass=web

}}</ref>

2 File:Henry Jackson Hunt.jpg Henry Jackson Hunt 1826 Democratic<ref name="mihistrev"/> Henry Jackson Hunt was a successful merchant, and served in various political offices, including county judge, city assessor, and trustee of the University of Michigan.<ref name = "gov"/> He was the uncle and namesake of Civil War General Henry Jackson Hunt. Hunt died while in office on September 15, 1826.<ref name = "library"/>
3 File:JohnathanKearsley.jpg Jonathan Kearsley 1826 Democratic<ref name = "bios385">Template:Citation</ref> Jonathan Kearsley served in the War of 1812, and was wounded badly enough to have his leg amputated.<ref name = "farm">Template:Citation</ref> He moved to Detroit in 1819 to become of Receiver of Public Monies, a post he held for 30 years. Kearsley was mayor twice, being appointed once in 1826 to fill Henry Jackson Hunt's term after his death, and being elected himself in 1829.<ref name = "gov"/><ref name = "library"/>
4 Mayor Biddle John Biddle 1827–1828 Whig<ref name = "chron1">Template:Citation</ref> Major John Biddle was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1792, the son of Charles Biddle, former Vice President of Pennsylvania,<ref name = "elm">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation CitationClass=web

}}</ref> He was in the US Army during the War of 1812, and was active in Detroit politics and civic life. He went on to serve as Michigan Territory delegate to the United States House of Representatives. His summer estate, "Wyandotte," was expanded into the current city of Wyandotte, Michigan.<ref name = "elm"/>

5 File:JohnathanKearsley.jpg Jonathan Kearsley 1829 Democratic<ref name="mihistrev"/> (see above)
6 Mayor Williams John R. Williams 1830 Democratic<ref name="mihistrev"/> (see above)
7 File:MarshallChapinDetroit.png Marshall Chapin 1831 Whig<ref name="mihistrev"/> Marshall Chapin trained as a medical doctor, and established the first drugstore in Detroit in 1819,<ref name = "farm"/> which endured well after Chapin's death and on into the 1880s.<ref name = "gov"/> He served twice as mayor (in 1831 and 1833) and was appointed City Physician during the cholera epidemics of 1832 and 1834.<ref name = "farm"/>
8 File:LeviCook.jpg Levi Cook 1832 Whig<ref name = "bios194">Template:Citation</ref> Levi Cook served in multiple positions in the government of Detroit and Michigan, including as Representative to the State House, Treasurer of the Michigan Territory, and mayor of Detroit in 1832, 1835, and 1836.<ref name = "farm"/>
9 File:MarshallChapinDetroit.png Marshall Chapin 1833<ref name = "farm"/> Whig<ref name="mihistrev"/> (see above)
10 Mayor Trowbridge Charles Christopher Trowbridge 1834 Whig<ref name = "bios643">Template:Citation</ref> Trowbridge moved to Detroit in 1819, at 19 years of age. In 1820, he served on the Lewis Cass expedition, led by Lewis Cass, so impressing Cass that the latter made Trowbridge his private secretary.<ref name = "pioneer">James V. Cambell, "Biographical Sketch of Charles C. Trowbridge," read June 3, 1883, published in Pioneer Collections: Report of the Pioneer Society of the State of Michigan, 1907, pp. 478–491</ref> In 1821, Trowbridge helped negotiate a treaty between the US government and the Winnebago and Menominee Indians, and was later appointed assistant secretary in the local Indian department.<ref name = "pioneer"/> In 1833, Trowbridge became an alderman of the city of Detroit,<ref name = "pioneer"/> and briefly served as Mayor during the cholera epidemic of 1834, resigning his position soon after.<ref name="city">Charles Trowbridge House Template:Webarchive from the city of Detroit</ref> In 1837, he ran as the Whig candidate for governor of Michigan, and was defeated by Stevens T. Mason.
11 File:Andrew Mack Detroit.JPG Andrew Mack 1834 Democratic<ref name = "bios427">Template:Citation</ref> A cholera epidemic broke out in 1834 during Mayor Charles Christopher Trowbridge's term; when the epidemic had subsided, Trowbridge resigned.<ref name = "farm"/> Andrew Mack won the ensuing special election on September 24 with 91 votes.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> He later represented Wayne County in the Michigan Legislature.<ref name = "farm"/>
12 File:LeviCook.jpg Levi Cook 1835–1836 Whig<ref name="mihistrev"/> (see above)
13 File:Treasurer Henry Howard.png Henry Howard 1837 Democratic<ref name = "bios356"/> Henry Howard moved to Detroit in 1827 to manage Howard and Wadhams, a commercial lumber venture. In his brief tenure in Detroit, he served as an alderman and mayor for one term, as well as the treasurer and auditor general of the state of Michigan. In 1840, Howard moved to Buffalo, New York to become treasurer of the Buffalo Savings Bank.<ref name = "bios356">Template:Citation</ref>
14 Mayor Porter Augustus Seymour Porter 1838 – March 14, 1839 Whig<ref name = "bios530">Template:Citation</ref> Augustus Porter was the nephew of Peter Buell Porter; he practiced law for 20 years in Detroit, acting as city Recorder in 1830 and elected mayor in 1838.<ref name = "congport">Template:CongBio</ref> He resigned on March 14, 1839, to serve as United States Senator for Michigan.<ref name = "library"/> In 1846 he moved to Niagara Falls, New York.<ref name = "congport"/>
15 File:AsherBBatesDetroit.png Asher B. Bates March 15, 1839 – April 18, 1839<ref>Template:Cite book</ref><ref name = "resig">Most references imply that both Porter and Bates served as mayor only in 1838; however, the DPL states an end date of March 14, 1839. Ross states that mayoral elections were held on the "first Monday in April," and thus Bates's short term in 1839 could be thought of as filling out Porter's "1838" term.</ref> Whig Asher Bates came to Detroit in 1831, and served as Justice of the Peace and City Attorney.<ref name = "farm"/> After Porter resigned, Bates was acting mayor for the remainder of Porter's term.<ref name = "library"/> He later served as Attorney General for the Kingdom of Hawaii<ref name = "farm"/> and died in 1873 in San Francisco of leprosy contracted in Hawaii.<ref name = "citydet">Template:Citation</ref>
16 File:DeGarmoJones.jpg De Garmo Jones 1839 Whig<ref name = "bios380">Template:Citation</ref> De Garmo Jones came to Detroit from Albany, New York, and was involved in many business ventures, including the Michigan Central Railroad.<ref name = "farm"/> In addition to serving as mayor, he was a city alderman multiple times, as well as state senator.<ref name = "farm"/>
17 Mayor Pitcher Zina Pitcher 1840–1841 Whig<ref name = "bios527">Template:Citation</ref> Zina Pitcher was a medical doctor, and began his career as a surgeon in the United States Army, eventually becoming president of the Army Medical Board in 1835.<ref name = "farm"/> After leaving the Army, he came to Detroit in 1836 and served in various positions, including both city and county physician, Regent of the University of Michigan, and three terms as mayor (1840, 1841, and 1843).<ref name = "farm"/> While Regent, Pitcher took an active role in establishing the medical school at the university.<ref name = "farm"/>
18 Mayor Houghton Douglass Houghton 1842 Democratic<ref name="mihistrev"/> Douglass Houghton was educated as a medical doctor, but after coming to Michigan served as the state geologist from 1833 until his death in 1845, and as a geology professor at the University of Michigan.<ref name = "farm"/> He was also a member of the National Institute in Washington DC and the Boston Society of Natural History, an honorary member of the Royal Antiquarian Society of Copenhagen, and a member of many other scientific and literary associations.<ref name = "farm"/> Houghton died in 1845 in a storm on Lake Superior near Eagle River, Michigan.<ref name = "farm"/> Houghton County, Michigan is named in his honor.<ref name = "farm"/>
19 Mayor Pitcher Zina Pitcher 1843 Whig<ref name = "bios527"/> (see above)
20 Mayor Williams John R. Williams 1844–1846 Democratic<ref name="mihistrev"/> (see above)
21 File:JohnAVanDykeDetroit.jpg James A. Van Dyke 1847 Whig<ref name = "bar">Template:Citation</ref> James A. Van Dyke was a lawyer by profession, served as City Attorney for Detroit, Wayne County prosecuting attorney, city alderman, and mayor.<ref name = "farm"/> In addition, he was heavily influential in early organization of the Detroit Fire Department, serving as president of the department from 1847 to 1851.<ref name = "bar"/>
22 Mayor Buhl Frederick Buhl 1848 Whig<ref name="mihistrev"/> Frederick Buhl moved to Detroit in 1833 and, with his brother Christian H. Buhl, began a business in hats and furs.<ref name = "farm"/> The business was large and successful, and Frederick Buhl remained at the helm until 1887, when he sold the business to his son. In addition to his furrier business, Frederick Buhl was the director of two banks, the president of Harper Hospital, and one of the original directors of the Merchant's Exchange and Board of Trade.<ref name = "farm"/> He also served on the city council as well as being mayor, and later in life joined the Republican Party.<ref>Template:Citation</ref>
23 File:CharlesHowardDetroit.jpg Charles Howard 1849 Whig<ref name="mihistrev"/> Charles Howard moved to Detroit in 1840 as an agent for the shipping and forwarding firm of Bronson, Crocker, and Company, and branched out into railroad construction and other endeavors.<ref name = "farm"/> He was simultaneously president of the Farmer's and Mechanics Bank and the Peninsular Bank,<ref name = "bank">Template:Citation</ref> and in 1848 he was elected mayor of Detroit.<ref name = "farm"/> Howard moved to New York City after the Panic of 1857 caused the Peninsular Bank to fail.<ref name = "brons">Template:Citation</ref>
24 File:John Ladue Detroit.jpg John Ladue 1850 Democratic<ref name = "nw">Template:Citation</ref> In 1847, Ladue moved to Detroit, and began in the business of manufacturing leather and purchasing wool.<ref name = "farm"/> He was popular among the business community, and in 1850 was elected mayor.<ref name = "farm"/> He died only a few years after in 1854.
25 Mayor Chandler Zachariah Chandler 1851 Whig<ref name = "bios164">Template:Citation</ref> Zachariah Chandler arrived in Detroit in 1833 and opened a dry goods store.<ref name = "farm"/> After serving as mayor of Detroit, Chandler spent 18 years in the United States Senate, and was also the United States Secretary of the Interior under Ulysses S. Grant.
26 File:JOHN H HARMON DETROIT.jpg John H. Harmon 1852–1853 Democratic<ref name = "farm"/> John Harmon came to Detroit in 1838, as a member of the Hunter Patriots, a group dedicated to ridding North America of the British Empire.<ref name = "fifty">Template:Citation</ref> In December 1838, Harmon took part in the Battle of Windsor, personally burning the British barracks and the steamer Thames.<ref name = "fifty"/> After the battle, Harmon stayed in Detroit, taking a job at the Detroit Free Press, and eventually purchasing the paper.<ref name = "farm"/> Harmon served as an alderman of the city of Detroit in 1847 and two years as mayor,<ref name = "farm"/> as well as representing Michigan on the 1848 Democratic National Committee,<ref name = "comm">Template:Citation</ref> and serving as Collector for the Port of Detroit. After he left the office of Collector, Harmon spent much of his time in Washington, DC, during congressional sessions.<ref name = "self">Template:Citation</ref>
27 File:OliverMoultonHydeDetroit.png Oliver Moulton Hyde 1854 Whig<ref name = "farm"/> Oliver Moulton Hyde moved to Detroit in 1838 and opened a hardware store on Woodward Avenue.<ref name = "farm"/> Hyde branched out in business, opening a foundry and machine shop, and began manufacturing marine engines and other steamboat hardware, and later began a dry dock business.<ref name = "farm"/> Hyde was elected to the city council numerous times, and served as mayor of Detroit in 1854, 1856, and 1857. He was also appointed Collector for the Port of Detroit under presidents Zachary Taylor and Millard Fillmore.<ref name = "farm"/>
28 Mayor Ledyard Henry Ledyard 1855 Democratic<ref name = "bios410">Template:Citation</ref> Henry Ledyard was the son of prominent New York lawyer Benjamin Ledyard and Susan French Livingston (the daughter of Revolutionary War Colonel and US Supreme Court justice Brockholst Livingston and granddaughter of New Jersey governor William Livingston).<ref name = "farm"/> When Lewis Cass was appointed Minister to France, Ledyard accompanied him to Paris, eventually becoming chargé d’affaires of the embassy and marrying Cass's daughter Mildred.<ref name = "farm"/> Ledyard returned to the United States in 1844 and moved to Detroit, serving as a member of the Board of Education, an alderman of the city, one of the original commissioners on the Board of Water Commissioners, mayor in 1855, and state senator in 1857.<ref name = "farm"/> When Lewis Cass was appointed Secretary of State under James Buchanan, Ledyard accompanied him to Washington, DC, and remained there until 1861,<ref name = "farm"/> briefly serving as assistant secretary of state.<ref name = "bios410"/> Afterwards, he moved to Newport, Rhode Island, where he lived for the rest of his life and was the first president of the Newport Hospital and the president of the Redwood Library.<ref name = "farm"/>
29 File:OliverMoultonHydeDetroit.png Oliver Moulton Hyde 1856–1857 Whig (see above)
30 File:JohnPattonDetroit.jpg John Patton 1858–1859 Democratic<ref name = "burt981">Template:Citation</ref> John Patton was a carriagemaker born in County Down, Ireland. He emigrated to the United States as a boy, and later came to Detroit and established a factory.<ref name = "burt981"/> He held many positions in the city, including chief engineer of the Fire Department, the Department president, city alderman, mayor, county auditor, Wayne County, Michigan sheriff, Justice of the Peace, and United States consul at Amherstburg, Ontario.<ref name = "burt981"/>
31 Mayor Buhl Christian H. Buhl 1860–1861 Republican<ref name = "histbio320"/> Christian H. Buhl moved to Detroit in 1833 and, with his brother Frederick Buhl, began a business in hats and furs.<ref name = "farm"/> The business was large and successful, and in 1855, Christian retired from the fur trade and started a wholesale hardware firm. Buhl was also part owner of the Sharon Iron Works, the Detroit Locomotive Works (later the Buhl Iron Works),<ref name = "farm"/> and organized Detroit Copper and Brass Company and the Peninsular Car Company.<ref name = "histbio320">Template:Citation</ref> He was an alderman as well as mayor of Detroit.
32 File:WilliamCDuncanDetroit2.jpg William C. Duncan 1862–1863 Democratic<ref name = "gen714">Template:Citation</ref> William C. Duncan moved to Detroit in 1849 and set up shop as a brewer.<ref name = "farm"/> He quickly became popular, and in 1852 was elected city alderman. He also served as the first council president,<ref name = "gen714"/> mayor, and state senator.<ref name = "farm"/> Ill-health in the mid-1860s forced his retirement from business and politics, and Duncan died, childless, in 1877.<ref name = "farm"/>
33 File:KirklandCBarkerDetroit.jpg Kirkland C. Barker 1864–1865 Democratic<ref name="mihistrev"/> Barker was born in Schuyler, New York, and worked in the shipping business before coming to Detroit and establishing the successful tobacco business of KC Barker & Company.<ref name = "farm"/> An avid outdoorsman, Barker was also the presiding officer of the Horse Association of America, and was elected Commodore of the Great Lakes Yacht Club.<ref name = "self9">Template:Citation</ref> He died in a boating accident near his home on Grosse Ile, Michigan.<ref name = "farm"/>
34 Mayor Mills Merrill I. Mills 1866–1867 Democratic<ref name = "farm"/> Mills, born in Canton, Connecticut, originally planned to start a general store in Fort Wayne, Indiana in 1845. However, early closing of navigation that year left Mills with his stock in Detroit, and, sensing an opportunity, he set up shop there instead.<ref name = "farm"/> Barker soon began trading in furs, then went into tobacco manufacturing as well as other pursuits.<ref name = "farm"/> In addition to being mayor, he served two years as head of the Democratic State Committee, and was a delegate to the 1876 Democratic National Convention.<ref name = "farm"/>
35 File:WilliamWWheatonDetroit.jpg William W. Wheaton 1868–1871 Democratic<ref name = "farm"/> Wheaton was born in New Haven, Connecticut in 1833.<ref name = "farm"/> He came to Detroit in 1853 and built a successful wholesale grocery business.<ref name = "farm"/> He was elected mayor in 1868, and later served as the chair of the Democratic State Convention.<ref name = "farm"/>
36 File:HughMoffatDetroit2.jpg Hugh Moffat 1872–1875 Republican<ref name = "farm"/> Moffat was born in 1810 in Coldstream, Scotland, and made his way to Detroit in 1837.<ref name = "farm"/> He began work as a carpenter, built up a successful and profitable business and expanded into the lumber trade by purchasing a sawmill and forested land.<ref name = "farm"/> Moffat was elected mayor for two terms; his administration was marked by a fractious relationship with the Detroit City Council, but his integrity earned him the moniker "Honest Hugh Moffat."<ref name = "farm"/>
37 File:AlexanderLewisDetroitMayor.jpg Alexander Lewis 1876–1877 Democratic<ref name = "farm"/> Alexander Lewis was born in Windsor, Ontario and came to Detroit when he was 14 to work as a clerk.<ref name = "farm"/> He eventually started his own forwarding & commission business, then moved onto wholesale trade and other businesses. In addition to being mayor, he served as Police Commissioner and a board member of the Detroit Public Library.<ref name = "farm"/>
38 File:George C Langdon Detroit.jpg George C. Langdon 1878–1879 Democratic<ref name = "chron2">Template:Citation</ref> George C. Langdon began work as a clerk, and eventually went into the business of brewing and malting, amassing a considerable fortune.<ref name = "gov2">Template:Citation</ref> After his stint in the mayor's office, he suffered some reversals of fortune, and was forced to return to clerking at the City Hall.<ref name = "gov2"/>
39 File:WilliamGThompsonDetroit.jpg William G. Thompson 1880–1883 Republican<ref name = "nyt2">Template:Cite news</ref> Thompson was a Republican while serving as mayor, and a delegate to both the 1876 and 1880 Republican National Convention.<ref name = "nyt2"/> However, in 1884 he switched parties to become a Democrat. He ran once more for mayor in 1891, being defeated by the then-incumbent Hazen S. Pingree.<ref name = "detroit">Template:Citation</ref> He also served as a state senator, being elected in 1894.<ref name = "gov35">Template:Citation</ref><ref name = "freep1">Template:Cite news</ref> In 1888, Thompson was party to a sensational and public fight, where Thompson was considerably pummeled, with his broth-in-law Daniel Campau, where the latter warned Thompson that "he must not talk about his wife hereafter in barrooms and other public places, as he had been doing."<ref name = "nyt">Template:Cite news</ref> William G. Thompson died in 1904 of injuries received after being knocked down by a bicycle.<ref name = "gov35"/>
40 File:StephenBenedictGrummondDetroitMayor.jpg Stephen Benedict Grummond 1884–1885 Republican<ref name = "farm"/> Stephen Benedict Grummond was born in Marine City, Michigan, and made his fortune in the shipping and marine industry.<ref name = "farm"/> Grummond was originally a Democrat, but joined the Republican Party when it was established, and served on the Board of Estimates, the Detroit City Council, and one term as mayor.<ref name = "farm"/>
41 File:ChamberlainMarvinHDetroit.jpg Marvin H. Chamberlain 1886–1887 Democratic<ref name = "farm"/> Marvin H. Chamberlain was a wholesale liquor distributor.<ref name = "det1860">Template:Citation</ref> He served as president of the Detroit City Council before being elected mayor.<ref name = "farm"/> In 1898, Chamberlain patented a "liquid separating process" for reduction of garbage, and received the contract to collect garbage in Detroit under the company name of Detroit Liquid Separating Co.<ref name = "coll">Template:Citation</ref> He later built similar plants in other cities.<ref name = "det1860"/>
42 File:JohnPridgeonJrDetroit.jpg John Pridgeon Jr. 1888–1889 Democratic<ref name="mihistrev"/> John Pridgeon Jr. was born in Detroit on August 1, 1852, the son of Captain John Pridgeon.<ref name = "farm"/> In 1871, he joined as a clerk his father's business of buying, selling, and operating sailing ships and tugs.<ref name = "farm"/> Pridgeon was a member of the first Park Commission, serving from 1879 to 1883.<ref name = "cyclo179"/> He was elected to the city council in 1885, and in 1887 was elected mayor of Detroit, serving one term in 1888–1889.<ref name = "farm"/> He later served as a member of the Police Commission from 1891 to 1892.<ref name = "cyclo179"/> After his stint as mayor, Pridgeon diversified his business interests, and in the years 1890–1900 served variously as president of the State Transportation Company, president of the Pridgeon Transportation Company, vice-president of the White Star Line, vice-president of the Red Star Line, and vice-president of the River Savings Bank.<ref name = "cyclo179">Template:Citation</ref>
43 Mayor Pingree Hazen S. Pingree 1890–1897 Republican<ref name="mihistrev"/> Hazen Pingree was born in Denmark, Maine, and worked for several years in a shoe factory before enlisting in the Union Army to serve in the Civil War.<ref name = "cyclo144">Template:Citation</ref> Following the war, Pingree moved to Detroit and there established the Pingree and Smith Shoe Co., which eventually had sales of over $1,000,000 per year.<ref name = "catlin">Template:Cite book</ref> Pingree was elected mayor of Detroit in 1889 on a platform of exposing and ending corruption in city paving contracts, sewer contracts, and the school board.<ref name = "catlin"/> During the depression of 1893, Pingree expanded the public welfare programs, initiated public works for the unemployed, built new schools, parks, and public baths.<ref name = "catlin"/> He gained national recognition through his "potato patch plan," a systematic use of vacant city land for gardens which would produce food for the city's poor.<ref name = "catlin"/> Pingree was elected mayor four times, and in 1896 was elected Governor of Michigan.<ref name = "cyclo144"/> However, his right to hold the two offices simultaneously was contested, and after the Michigan Supreme Court ruled against him, Pingree resigned as mayor on March 22, 1897.<ref name = "library"/><ref name = "catlin"/> During his four years in office, the direct election of U.S. senators was promoted; an eight-hour workday was endorsed; a regulated income tax was supported; and railroad taxation was advocated.<ref name = "nag">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation CitationClass=web

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44 File:William Richert Detroit.jpg William Richert March 22, 1897 – April 5, 1897 Republican<ref name="Muni">Template:Citation</ref> William Richert served on the Detroit City Council for eight years, and as president of the body in 1895 and 1897.<ref name = "gov1">Template:Citation</ref> Richert served as acting mayor from March 22 to April 5, 1897, after Pingree was declared ineligible to serve as both mayor and governor.<ref name = "library"/>
45 Mayor Maybury William C. Maybury 1897–1904 Democratic<ref name="mihistrev"/> Maybury served as the city attorney for Detroit during the 1870s, and was twice elected to the United States House of Representatives, in 1882 and 1884.<ref name = "congmay">Template:CongBio</ref> He was elected mayor of Detroit in 1897 to complete Hazen S. Pingree's term, and was elected twice thereafter. In 1900, Maybury ran unsuccessfully for Governor of Michigan.<ref name = "congmay"/>
46 File:GeorgePCoddDetroit.jpg George P. Codd 1905–1906 Republican<ref name="mihistrev"/> George P. Codd studied as a lawyer and was admitted to the bar in 1892.<ref name = "congcodd">Template:CongBio</ref> He was assistant city attorney from 1894 to 1897, a member of the board of aldermen from 1902 to 1904, mayor of Detroit from 1905 to 1906, a regent of the University of Michigan in 1910 and 1911, circuit judge of Wayne County from 1911 to 1921 and 1924 to 1927, and a member of the United States House of Representatives from 1921 to 1923.<ref name = "congcodd"/>
47 File:William B. Thompson (ca 1912).jpg William Barlum Thompson 1907–1908 Democratic<ref name="mihistrev"/> William Barlum Thompson served as an alderman for two terms, from 1891 to 1894, and was elected for a third term in 1896.<ref name = "gov52">Template:Citation</ref> He resigned his seat as an alderman in 1897 after being elected city treasurer, and served as mayor for two terms, in 1907–1908 and 1911–1912.<ref name = "gov52"/>
48 File:PhilipBreitmeyer.jpg Philip Breitmeyer 1909–1910 Republican<ref name="mihistrev"/> After finishing school, Breitmeyer joined the family florist business, John Breitmeyer & Sons, and after his father's death bought out his brothers to become sole owner of the firm.<ref name = "burt636">Template:Citation</ref> The business grew rapidly, and Breitmeyer was one of the organizers, and served as president, of Florists' Telegraph Delivery (now Florists' Transworld Delivery, or FTD).<ref name = "burt636"/> Breitmeyer was appointed by George P. Codd as Commissioner of Parks and Boulevards for the city of Detroit.<ref name = "gov145">Template:Citation</ref> So well did he perform that he was nominated as the candidate for mayor, and was elected for a term in 1909–1910.<ref name = "gov145"/> Breitmeyer ran again for mayor in 1933, but was soundly defeated by James Couzens's son Frank.<ref name = "bcs">Template:Cite news</ref>
49 File:William B. Thompson (ca 1912).jpg William Barlum Thompson 1911–1912 Democratic<ref name="mihistrev"/> (see above)
50 File:OscarBMarxDetroitMayor.jpg Oscar Marx 1913–1918 Republican<ref name="mihistrev"/> Oscar Marx was born on July 14, 1866, in Wayne County, Michigan, the son of German immigrants.<ref name = "lud">Template:Cite news</ref> As Detroit and Hamtramck, Michigan grew, the encroaching cities swallowed the Marx farm; when Oscar Marx's father sold the farm, he gave Oscar several thousand dollars, which he used to buy into a bankrupt optical firm, the Michigan Optical Company.<ref name = "lud"/> Marx steered the company to become one of the largest in the region.<ref name = "lud"/> In 1895 he was elected as an alderman, a position he held for eight years.<ref name = "burton608">Template:Citation</ref> In 1910, he was appointed City Assessor, and two years later saw his first of three terms as Detroit's mayor.<ref name = "lud"/> Marx was friends with Robert Oakman and John Dodge, and the three men controlled the Republican Party in Southeast Michigan for much of the 1910s.<ref name = "dodge"/> Marx appointed James J. Couzens, the man who would become the next mayor, to take over the Detroit police force,<ref name = "dodge">Template:Citation</ref>

Non-partisan electionsEdit

A new city charter went into effect in 1918, which required that all city offices be non-partisan. The following mayors were elected in non-partisan elections with no party designations on the ballot, and served on a non-partisan basis with no official party affiliation:<ref name = "city charter 1918">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}Template:Dead link</ref> This provision has been repeated in the subsequent city charters of 1974, 1997, and 2012:<ref name = "city charter 2012">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> So, the party affiliations shown below are based on information from each mayor's personal and/or political history and do not represent any official status.

# Mayor Term Party Notes
51 Mayor Couzens James J. Couzens 1919–1922 Republican<ref name="mihistrev"/> Couzens began his career working for the New York Central Railroad, then became a clerk for coal dealer Alexander Y. Malcomson.<ref name = "henry">Template:Citation</ref> In 1903, Malcomson helped bankroll Henry Ford in his new venture, the Ford Motor Company. Couzens borrowed heavily and invested $2500 in the new firm, and took over the business side of the operation.<ref name = "henry"/> Ford Motor Company became immensely profitable, paying Couzens large dividends; when he finally sold his stock to Ford in 1919, Couzens received $30,000,000.<ref name = "henry"/> In the 1910s, Couzens was appointed street railway commissioner and police commissioner for Detroit.<ref name = "congcouz">Template:CongBio</ref> In 1919, he took the step to elected office, being twice elected mayor of Detroit.<ref name = "congcouz"/> Couzens resigned on December 5, 1922, after being appointed as the United States Senator for Michigan, replacing the disgraced Truman H. Newberry.<ref name = "library"/><ref name = "congcouz"/> Couzens was re-elected twice more, and served in the Senate until his death in 1936.<ref name = "congcouz"/> His son Frank served as Detroit mayor in the 1930s.<ref name = "whofc"/>
52 File:John C Lodge Detroit.jpg John C. Lodge December 5, 1922 – April 9, 1923 Republican<ref name="mihistrev"/> John C. Lodge served for over 30 years on the Detroit City Council, many of them as its president.<ref name = "timelodge">Template:Cite news</ref><ref name="libcouncil">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation CitationClass=web

}}</ref> In that, capacity, Lodge served as acting mayor twice: once after James J. Couzens's resignation in 1922 and once after Joseph A. Martin's resignation in 1924.<ref name = "library"/> Lodge was later elected in his own right as mayor for one term in 1928–1930,<ref name = "library"/> after which he was re-elected to a seat on the City Council.<ref name = "library"/> After Lodge's death in 1950, the John C. Lodge Freeway (M-10) in Detroit was named after him.<ref name = "pglodge">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

CitationClass=web

}}</ref>

53 File:FrankEDoremusDetroit.jpg Frank Ellsworth Doremus April 9, 1923 – June 10, 1924 Democratic<ref name="mihistrev"/> Doremus was a newspaperman and lawyer.<ref name = "congdoremus">Template:CongBio</ref> He served in the United States House of Representatives from 1911 to 1921,<ref name = "congdoremus"/> including a stint as chair of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee.<ref name = "solicit">Template:Citation</ref> Doremus was elected mayor in 1923, but resigned on June 10, 1924, due to ill-health.<ref name = "library"/><ref name = "man">Template:Citation</ref>
54 File:Joseph A. Martin.jpg Joseph A. Martin June 10, 1924 – August 2, 1924 Republican Joseph A. Martin was Commissioner of Public Works for Detroit from 1920 to 1923.<ref name = "murph">Template:Citation</ref> He served as acting mayor in 1924 after Frank Ellsworth Doremus resigned for health reasons.<ref name="man"/> Martin resigned to concentrate on running for mayor, but lost a three-way race to John W. Smith (with Charles Bowles as the write-in candidate).<ref name = "reader">Template:Citation</ref> Joseph A. Martin died in 1928.<ref name = "nyt3">Template:Cite news</ref>
55 File:John C Lodge Detroit.jpg John C. Lodge August 2, 1924 – November 21, 1924 Republican<ref name="mihistrev"/> (see above)
56 File:John W Smith Detroit.jpg John W. Smith November 21, 1924 – January 9, 1928 Republican<ref name="mihistrev"/> In 1911, Smith was appointed Deputy State Labor Commissioner by Governor Chase S. Osborn.<ref name = "bridge">Template:Citation</ref> He was elected to the Michigan State Senate in 1920, and was appointed postmaster of Detroit by Warren G. Harding in 1922.<ref name = "bridge"/> In 1924, Smith won election as Detroit mayor after Frank Ellsworth Doremus's resignation,<ref name = "bridge"/> continuing in the office until 1928.<ref name = "library"/> Smith later served on the Detroit City Council for most of the time from 1932 until his death in 1942.<ref name="libcouncil"/> He served one more time as mayor in 1933, acting to fill out the end of Frank Murphy's term,<ref name = "library"/> after the latter had resigned and his successor, Frank Couzens, also resigned to concentrate on running for election as mayor.<ref name = "kelley">Template:Cite news</ref>
57 File:John C Lodge Detroit.jpg John C. Lodge January 10, 1928 – January 14, 1930 Republican<ref name="mihistrev"/> (see above)
58 File:Charles-bowles-mayor.jpg Charles Bowles January 14, 1930 – September 22, 1930 Republican<ref name="mihistrev"/> In 1925, Charles Boles rose from obscurity to run for the mayoral seat vacated by Frank Ellsworth Doremus, with heavy support from the Ku Klux Klan.<ref name = "respect">Template:Citation</ref> He ran third in the primary election behind John W. Smith and Joseph A. Martin,<ref name = "kkk">Template:Citation</ref> but continued his campaign as a write-in candidate, and narrowly lost only after 15,000 write-in ballots were disqualified.<ref name = "respect"/> Bowles ran again in 1929, this time defeating both Smith and John C. Lodge to win the election.<ref name = "persp">Template:Citation</ref> Bowles had campaigned as an anti-crime reformer, but when he fired Police Commissioner Harold Emmons after the latter had ordered a series of raids, he was accused of "tolerating lawlessness" and a recall election was instituted barely six months after he had entered office.<ref name = "persp"/><ref name = "lew">Template:Cite news</ref> The recall was successful,<ref name = "lew"/> and Bowles lost the special election called to replace him to Frank Murphy on September 22, 1930.<ref name = "library"/><ref name = "sara">Template:Cite news</ref>
59 Mayor Murphy Frank Murphy September 23, 1930 – May 10, 1933 Democratic<ref name="mihistrev"/> Frank Murphy was a recorder's court judge in the 1920s;<ref name = "murphjudge"/> his one-man grand jury investigation into city corruption raised his profile in the public's eye.<ref name = "murphy">Template:Citation</ref> He ran against Charles Bowles after the latter was recalled in 1930 and was elected, and was re-elected for a full term the following year. Frank Murphy resigned the mayorship in 1933 when Franklin D. Roosevelt named him Governor-General of the Philippines.<ref name = "murphjudge">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation CitationClass=web

}}</ref> He later went on to become Governor of Michigan, Attorney General of the United States, and finished his career as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States.<ref name = "murphjudge"/>

60 File:Frank Couzens.jpg Frank Couzens May 10, 1933 – September 8, 1933 Republican<ref name="mihistrev"/> Frank Couzens was the son of James J. Couzens.<ref name="whofc">Template:Cite news</ref> After a stint on the Detroit Street Railways Commission,<ref name = "herald">Template:Cite news</ref> Couzens ran for a seat on the Detroit City Council, and garnered enough votes to become council president.<ref name = "herald"/> When Frank Murphy resigned in 1933 to become governor of the Philippines, Couzens became acting mayor.<ref name = "herald"/> He resigned the mayor's office on September 8, 1933, to concentrate on receiving the Republican nomination for the office.<ref name = "miami">Template:Cite news</ref> He was then elected mayor twice, filling out four years in office.<ref name = "herald"/>
61 File:John W Smith Detroit.jpg John W. Smith September 8, 1933 – January 2, 1934 Republican<ref name="mihistrev"/> (see above)
62 File:Frank Couzens.jpg Frank Couzens January 2, 1934 – January 3, 1938 Republican<ref name="mihistrev"/> (see above)
63 File:Readingmayor39.jpg Richard Reading January 4, 1938 – January 1, 1940 Republican<ref name="mihistrev"/> Reading was appointed City Assessor in 1921, moved to City Controller in 1924, and was elected City Clerk in 1926.<ref name = "whoreading">Template:Citation</ref> He stayed in the office of clerk until 1939, when he ran for mayor, ultimately defeating Patrick H. O'Brien by nearly two-to-one.<ref name = "pitt">Template:Cite news</ref> However, once in the office, Reading engaged in graft, selling protection to numbers racketeers and promotions to police officers.<ref name = "jeffries">Template:Citation</ref> This corruption was exposed as the campaign for the next mayoral election was gearing up,<ref name = "jeffries"/> and Reading was crushed by Edward Jeffries.<ref name = "nyt4">Template:Cite news</ref><ref name = "jeffries"/> Shortly after leaving office, Reading was indicted on charges of accepting bribes and conspiring to protect Detroit's gambling rackets, and was sentenced to four to five years in prison.<ref name = "detnewsread">Template:Cite news</ref>
64 File:Edward Jeffries.JPG Edward Jeffries January 2, 1940 – January 5, 1948 Republican<ref name="mihistrev"/> Edward Jeffries was the son of Recorder's Court Judge and civic servant Edward Jeffries Sr.<ref name = "letter">Template:Citation</ref> The younger Jeffries ran for Detroit City Council in 1932, and served on that body for four terms, from 1932 to 1940, serving the last two as City Council president.<ref name = "libcouncil"/> In 1940, Jeffries moved to the mayors office, winning four consecutive terms before losing to Eugene Van Antwerp in 1947. Jeffries was elected once more to serve on the City Council, beginning in 1950, but died in office shortly thereafter.<ref name = "libcouncil"/>
65 File:Eugene I. Van Antwerp.jpg Eugene Van Antwerp January 6, 1948 – January 2, 1950 Democratic<ref name="mihistrev"/> Eugene Van Antwerp was a civil engineer and a captain in the United States Army Corps of Engineers during World War I.<ref name = "whova">Template:Citation</ref> He served in the Detroit City Council from 1932 to 1948, when he moved to the mayor's office.<ref name = "libcouncil"/> During that time, he also served a stint as the commander of the Veterans of Foreign Wars in 1938–39.<ref name="vfw">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation CitationClass=web

}}</ref> Van Antwerp served a single term as mayor, moving back to the council in a special election in 1950 and remaining on the council until his death in 1962.<ref name = "libcouncil"/>

66 File:Albert Cobo.jpg Albert Cobo January 3, 1950 – September 12, 1957 Republican<ref name="mihistrev"/> Albert Cobo worked for Burroughs Corporation when, in 1933, the company "loaned" him to the city of Detroit to help with their financial crisis.<ref name = "windcobo">Template:Cite news</ref> Cobo never returned to Burroughs, instead running for the position of city treasurer in 1935, and serving seven consecutive terms.<ref name = "windcobo"/> In 1949, he ran for mayor, winning that election and the next two (the last for a four-year term).<ref name = "windcobo"/> Cobo ran for governor in 1956, but was handily beaten by G. Mennen Williams, his first loss after ten successful citywide campaigns.<ref name = "owocobo">Template:Cite news</ref> He declined to run for a fourth term as mayor, but died in office near the end of his term.<ref name = "library"/>
67 File:Louis Miriani Mayor of Detroit.jpg Louis Miriani September 12, 1957 – January 2, 1962 Republican<ref name = "nytmi"/> Louis Miriani was elected to the Detroit City Council in 1947, and was council president from 1949 to 1957.<ref name = "libcouncil"/> After Albert Cobo died in office, Miriani served as acting mayor for the remainder of Cobo's term and was elected himself beginning in 1958.<ref name = "library"/> He served until 1961, when he was defeated for reelection by Jerome Cavanagh in an upset fueled largely by African-American support for Cavanagh.<ref name = "phoo">Template:Cite news</ref> Miriani was again elected to the City Council in 1965.<ref name = "nytmi"/> In 1969, he was convicted of federal tax evasion and served approximately 10 months in prison.<ref name = "nytmi">Template:Cite news</ref> He retired from politics after his conviction.<ref name = "nytmi"/> Most recent Republican to serve as mayor of Detroit.
68 File:Jerome Cavanagh (12932052063a).jpg Jerome Cavanagh January 2, 1962 – January 5, 1970 Democratic<ref name="mihistrev"/> The 1961 mayoral race was the first campaign undertaken by the young Jerome Cavanagh.<ref name = "phoo"/> He was perceived as an easy opponent for incumbent Louis Miriani, but with the backing of the city's African-American community, Cavanagh pulled off a stunning upset.<ref name = "phoo"/> Cavanagh was initially a popular mayor, appointing a reformer to be chief of police and marching arm-in-arm with Martin Luther King Jr. down Woodward Avenue. Cavanagh was reelected overwhelmingly in 1965, and in 1966 was elected president of both the United States Conference of Mayors and the National League of Cities.<ref name = "phoo"/> However, his reputation was dimmed by the 1967 riots, and he declined to run for a third term. In 1974, Cavanagh ran for Governor of Michigan, but lost in the primary. In 1979, he died from a heart attack, at age 51.<ref name = "phoo"/>
69 File:Roman S. Gribbs.jpg Roman Gribbs January 6, 1970 – January 1, 1974 Democratic<ref name="mihistrev"/> Gribbs served as an assistant prosecutor from 1956 to 1964 and as sheriff of Wayne County in 1968 and 1969 before deciding to run for mayor.<ref name = "biogribbs">Template:Citation</ref> Gribbs served a single term as mayor, declining to seek re-election.<ref name = "piast">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation CitationClass=web

}}</ref> After leaving office, he served as a circuit court judge from 1975 to 1982 and on the Michigan Court of Appeals from 1982 until his retirement in 2000.<ref name = "biogribbs"/><ref name = "piast"/>

70 Mayor Young Coleman Young January 1, 1974 – January 3, 1994 Democratic<ref name="mihistrev"/> Coleman Young was born in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, but moved to Detroit when he was five.<ref name = "nytyoung">Template:Cite news</ref> During World War II, Young served as one of the Tuskegee Airmen, and returned to Detroit at the end of the war.<ref name = "nytyoung"/> He ran for state representative in 1959 but lost; in 1963 he ran for state senate and won.<ref name = "nytyoung"/> He served in the senate until 1974 when he moved into the mayor's office, becoming the city's first African-American mayor.<ref name = "nytyoung"/> Young remained as mayor for a record five terms, becoming the longest-serving mayor in city history.<ref name = "nytyoung"/> During his tenure, Young was the vice chairman of the Democratic National Committee from 1977 to 1981 and chair of the Democratic National Convention Platform Committee in 1980. He also led the United States Conference of Mayors and the National Conference of Democratic Mayors at various times.<ref name = "nytyoung"/> With his health deteriorating, Young declined to seek a sixth term.<ref name = "nytyoung"/>
71 Mayor Archer Dennis Archer January 3, 1994 – December 31, 2001 Democratic<ref name = "usmn"/> Dennis Archer practiced law privately and as a law professor before being named to the Michigan Supreme Court in 1985 by Michigan governor James Blanchard.<ref name = "archerbio">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation CitationClass=web

}}</ref> The following year, Archer was elected to a full eight-year term.<ref name = "archerbio"/> He served two terms as mayor of Detroit, during which he was president of the National Conference of Democratic Mayors and president of the National League of Cities.<ref name = "usmn">Template:Cite news</ref> Archer declined to seek a third term.<ref name = "usmn"/> After stepping down from the mayor's office, he was elected chair of Dickinson Wright and served a year as president of the American Bar Association.<ref name = "archerbio"/>

72 Mayor Kilpatrick Kwame Kilpatrick January 1, 2002 – September 18, 2008 Democratic<ref name = "nytkk"/> Kwame Kilpatrick is the son of former county commissioner Bernard Kilpatrick and former Michigan legislator and United States congresswoman Carolyn Cheeks Kilpatrick.<ref name = "nytkk">Template:Cite news</ref> The younger Kilpatrick began his political career by running for the Michigan House seat his mother vacated in 1996,<ref name = "beatty">Template:Cite news</ref> and was minority leader in the state house by 2001.<ref name = "nytkk"/> Kilpatrick was twice elected mayor, but resigned office in 2008 after a corruption scandal; he was later sentenced to 28 years in prison.<ref name = "nytkk2">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation CitationClass=web

}}</ref>

73 Mayor Cockrel Kenneth Cockrel Jr. September 18, 2008 – May 11, 2009 Democratic.<ref name = "nytbing"/> Ken Cockrel is the son of the late Kenneth Cockrel Sr., a civil rights activist and Detroit City Council member.<ref name = "crain">Template:Cite news</ref> The younger Cockrel also ran for city council, and was first elected in 1997.<ref name = "crain"/> Cockrel was elected council president in 2005,<ref name = "crain"/> and assumed the mayorship after Kwame Kilpatrick's resignation in 2008.<ref name = "nytkc">Template:Cite news</ref><ref name = "foxkc">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation CitationClass=web

}}</ref> However, Cockrel lost the ensuing special election to Dave Bing, and returned to his seat on the city council.<ref name = "nytbing">Template:Cite news</ref> Cockrel was re-elected to the city council later in the year.<ref name = "mlivekc">Template:Cite news</ref>

74 Mayor Bing Dave Bing May 11, 2009 – December 31, 2013 Democratic<ref name = "nytbing"/> Dave Bing played 12 seasons in the National Basketball Association (9 with the Detroit Pistons) and was elected to the Basketball Hall of Fame.<ref name = "nytbing"/> After retiring from basketball, Bing started an auto parts manufacturing business, the Bing Group.<ref name = "nytbing"/><ref name = "nytbing2">Template:Cite news</ref> He moved to Detroit specifically to run for mayor,<ref name = "nytbing2"/> and won the special election in May 2009 to fill the remainder of Kwame Kilpatrick's term,<ref name = "nytbing"/> and was elected to a full term later in the year.<ref name = "nyt2009">Template:Cite news</ref>
75 Mayor-elect Duggan Mike Duggan January 1, 2014 – present Democratic Mike Duggan served as the deputy County Executive and prosecutor for Wayne County, and was president and CEO of the Detroit Medical Center from 2004 to 2012. He resigned to run for Detroit mayor;<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> after failing to qualify for the primary ballot, he waged a successful write-in campaign to qualify for the run-off election,<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> where he beat Benny Napoleon. Duggan is the first white mayor since Roman Gribbs, who served when the city was still predominantly white.

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