List of mayors of Ann Arbor, Michigan

This is a list of mayors of Ann Arbor, Michigan, beginning with Ann Arbor's incorporation as a city on April 4, 1851.

Mayors of Ann Arbor
Mayor	Years	Political party
George Sedgwick	1851-1855	Whig
James Kingsley	1855-1856	Democrat
William S. Maynard	1856-1858
Philip Bach	1858-1859	Republican
Robert J. Barry	1859-1861	Republican
John F. Miller	1861-1862	Democrat
Charles Spoor	1862-1863
Ebenezer Wells	1863-1865	Democrat
William S. Maynard	1865-1866
Oliver M. Martin	1866-1868	Republican
Christian Eberbach	1868-1869	Republican
Alfred H. Partridge	1869-1870
William D. Harriman	1870-1871	Democrat
Silas H. Douglass	1871-1873
Hiram J. Beakes	1873-1875	Democrat
Edward D. Kinne	1875-1877	Republican
Densmore Cramer	1877-1878	Democrat
Willard B. Smith	1878-1880	Republican
John Kapp	1880-1883	Democrat
William D. Harriman	1883-1885	Democrat
John Kapp	1885-1886	Democrat
John J. Robison	1886-1887	Democrat
Willard B. Smith	1887-1888	Republican
Samuel W. Beakes	1888-1890	Democrat
Charles H. Manly	1890-1891	Democrat
William G. Doty	1891-1893
Bradley M. Thompson	1893-1894	Democrat
Cyrenus G. Darling	1894-1895	Republican
Warren E. Walker	1895-1897	Republican
Charles E. Hiscock	1897-1899
Gottlob Luick	1899-1901	Democrat
Royal S. Copeland	1901-1903	Republican
Arthur Brown	1903-1905	Democrat
Francis M. Hamilton	1905-1907
James C. Henderson	1907-1909
William L. Walz	1909-1913	Democrat
Robert G. MacKenzie	1913-1915	Republican
Charles A. Sauer (died in office)	1915
Ernst M. Wurster (acting mayor)	1915-1917	Democrat
Ernst M. Wurster	1917-1921	Democrat
George E. Lewis	1921-1925	Republican
Robert A. Campbell	1925-1927	Republican
Edward W. Staebler	1927-1931	Democrat
H. Wirt Newkirk	1931-1933	Republican
Robert A. Campbell	1933-1937	Republican
Walter C. Sadler	1937-1941	Republican
Leigh J. Young	1941-1945	Republican
William E. Brown Jr.	1945-1957	Republican
Samuel J. Eldersveld	1957-1959	Democrat
Cecil O. Creal	1959-1965	Republican
Wendell E. Hulcher	1965-1969	Republican
Robert J. Harris	1969-1973	Democrat
James E. Stephenson	1973-1975	Republican
Albert H. Wheeler	1975-1978	Democrat
Louis D. Belcher	1978-1985	Republican
Edward C. Pierce	1985-1987	Democrat
Gerald D. Jernigan	1987-1991	Republican
Elizabeth S. Brater	1991-1993	Democrat
Ingrid B. Sheldon	1993-2000	Republican
John Hieftje	2000-present	Democrat

References

Ann Arbor mayors, Political Graveyard website
Samuel W. Beakes, Past and Present of Washtenaw County (Washtenaw County, Mich.: S.J. Clarke Publishing Co., 1906), for political affiliations prior to 1906.
Stephen D. Bingham, Early History of Michigan, with Biographies of State Officers, Members of Congress, Judges and Legislators (Lansing: Thorp and Godfrey, 1888).
Jonathan Marwil, A History of Ann Arbor (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1990).
Mayor of Ann Arbor, Arborwiki