List of mayors of Detroit, Michigan

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

Mayors under first incorporation:

• 1806 Solomon Sibley
• 1806 Elijah Brush

Mayors after reincorporation:

1824-1825 John R. Williams 1826 Henry Jackson Hunt (the elder) 1826 Jonathan Kearsley 1827-1828 John Biddle 1829 Jonathan Kearsley 1830 John R. Williams 1831 Marshall Chapin 1832 Levi Cook 1834 Charles Christopher Trowbridge 1834 Andrew Mack 1835-1836 Levi Cook 1837 Henry Howard 1838 (resigned) Augustus S. Porter 1838 Asher B. Bates 1839 De Garmo Jones 1840-1841 Zina Pitcher 1842 Douglass Houghton 1843 Zina Pitcher 1844-47 John R. Williams 1847 James A. VanDyke 1848 Frederick Buhl 1849-1850 Charles D. Howard 1850-1851 John Ladue 1851-1852 Zachariah Chandler 1852-1853 John H. Harmon 1854-1855 Oliver Moulton Hyde 1855-56 Henry Ledyard 1856-1857 Oliver Moulton Hyde 1858-1859 John Patton 1860-1861 Christian H. Buhl 1862-1863 William C. Duncan 1866-1867 Merrill I. Mills 1868-1871 William W. Wheaton 1872-1875 Hugh Moffat

1876-1877 Alexander Lewis 1878-1879 George C. Langdon 1880-1883 William G. Thompson 1884-1885 Stephen Benedict Grummond 1886-1887 M. H. Chamberlain 1888-1889 John Pridgeon, Jr. 1890-1897 Hazen S. Pingree 1897 William Rickert 1897-1904 William Cotter Maybury 1905-1906 George Codd 1907-1908 William B. Thompson 1909-1910 Philip Breitmeyer 1911-1912 William B. Thompson 1913-1918 Oscar Marx 1919-1922 James Couzens 1922-1923 John C. Lodge 1923-1924 Frank Doremus 1924 Joseph Martin 1924 John C. Lodge 1924-1928 John Smith 1927-1929 John C. Lodge 1930 Charles Bowles 1930-1933 Frank Murphy 1933-1938 Frank Couzens 1938-1940 Richard Reading 1940-1948 Edward Jeffries 1948-1950 Eugene Van Antwerp 1950-1957 Albert Cobo 1957-1962 Louis Miriani 1962-1970 Jerome Cavanagh 1970-1974 Roman Gribbs 1974-1994 Coleman Young 1994-2002 Dennis Archer 2002-present Kwame Kilpatrick

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