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.

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.

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 January 4, 1938-January 2, 1940 Richard Reading January 2, 1940-January 6, 1948 Edward Jeffries January 6, 1948-January 3, 1950 Eugene Van Antwerp January 3, 1950-September 12, 1957 Albert Cobo September 12, 1957-January 2, 1962 Louis Miriani January 2, 1962-January 6, 1970 Jerome Cavanagh January 6, 1970-January 1, 1974 Roman Gribbs January 1, 1974-January 3, 1994 Coleman Young January 3, 1994-January 4, 2002 Dennis Archer January 4, 2002-present Kwame Kilpatrick

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• The Early Government of Detroit

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