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| incumbent                = [[Mike Duggan]]
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| first                    = [[John R. Williams]]
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This is a '''list of [[mayor]]s of [[Detroit]]''', in the [[U.S. state]] of [[Michigan]]. The current mayor is [[Mike Duggan]],<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.economist.com/news/united-states/21728959-what-happens-when-city-accustomed-bad-government-elects-good-one-detroit-end |title=In Detroit, the end of blight is in sight; What happens when a city accustomed to bad government elects a good one |author=<!--Not stated--> |date=September 16, 2017 |website=[[Economist.com]] |access-date=September 19, 2017}}</ref> who was sworn into office on January 1, 2014.

==History of Detroit's executive authority==
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">{{citation | title = The Michigan historical review| volume = 12–13 |author1 = Clarke Historical Library| author2 = Historical Society of Michigan |publisher  = Central Michigan University| year = 1986 | page = 14 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VKzhAAAAMAAJ}}</ref>

===Early French and British leadership===
During the early part of Detroit's existence, local authority was vested in French and British military commandants.  French commandants included:<ref>{{cite web | url = http://historydetroit.com/people/ponchartrain_commandants.php | access-date=April 7, 2021 | title = People of Detroit: French Commandants of Fort Ponchartrain du Detroit | publisher = Detroit History}}</ref>
* [[Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac]] (1701–1710)
* {{ill|François de la Forêt|fr}} (1710–1714)
* [[Jacques-Charles Renaud Dubuisson]] (1714)
* [[Alphonse de Tonty|Pierre Alphonse de Tonty]] (1717–1727)
* {{ill|Jean-Baptiste de Saint-Ours Deschaillons|fr}} (1728–1729)
* {{ill|Louis Henry Deschamps|fr}}, Sieur de Boishebert (1730–1733)
* {{ill|Jacques-Hugues Péan de Livaudière|fr}} (1733–1736)
* {{ill|Pierre-Jacques Payen de Noyan|fr}}, Sieur de Charvis (1739–1742)
* [[Pierre Joseph Céloron de Blainville|Pierre Joseph Celoron]] (1742–1744)
* [[Paul-Joseph Le Moyne de Longueuil|Paul Joseph le Moyne]], Chevalier de Longueuil (1744–1748)
* [[Pierre Joseph Céloron de Blainville|Pierre Joseph Celoron]] (second term, 1750–1754)
* {{ill|Jacques-Pierre Daneau de Muy|fr}} (1754–1758)
* [[François-Marie Picoté de Belestre|Francois Marie Picote]], Sieur de Belestre (1758–1760)

Seventeen British commandants led Detroit between 1760 and 1796.<ref>{{cite web | url = http://historydetroit.com/people/british_commandants.php | access-date=April 7, 2021 | title = People of Detroit: British Commandants of Fort Detroit | publisher = Detroit History}}</ref>
* Major [[Robert Rogers (British Army officer)|Robert Rogers]] (1760)
* Captain [[Donald Campbell (British Army officer)|Donald Campbell]] (1760–1762)
* Major [[Henry Gladwin]] (1762–1764)
* Colonel [[John Bradstreet]] (1764)
* Lieutenant-Colonel [[John Campbell (British Army officer, died 1804)|John Campbell]] (1765–1766)
* [[George Turnbull (soldier)|George Turnbull]] (1766–1769)
* Captain James Stephenson (1770–1772)
* Captain George Etherington (1772)	
* Major Henry Bassett (1772–1774)
* Captain Richard Beringer Lernoult (1774–1779)
* Colonel [[Arent DePeyster|Arent Schuyler de Peyster]] (1779–1784)
* Major William Ancrum (1785–1786)
* Thomas Bennett (1786)
* Captain Robert Matthews (1787–1788)
* Major Patrick Murray (1788–1790)
* Major John Smith (1790–1792)
* Colonel [[Richard G. England|Richard England]] (1792–1796)

===Early American leadership===
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>{{cite web | url = https://detroithistorical.org/learn/encyclopedia-of-detroit/hamtramck-colonel-john | access-date = April 7, 2021 | title = Hamtramck, Colonel John | publisher = Encyclopedia of Detroit}}</ref>

The first local rule of Detroit was established in 1802, when Detroit was incorporated as a town.<ref name = "hdm">{{citation | title = The history of Detroit and Michigan: or, the metropolis illustrated; a chronological cyclopaedia of the past and present, including a full record of territorial days in Michigan, and the annals of Wayne county | author = Silas Farmer | publisher = S. Farmer & Co. | year = 1884 | pages = 133–135 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=2dtMHBxD6R8C&pg=PA133}}</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">{{citation|title = The government of the city of Detroit and Wayne County, Michigan: 1701 to 1907, historical and biographical| year = 1907 |pages = 24–56| isbn = 9780598455529 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Y6vhAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA26}}</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 charter===
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 Trustees===
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 (Michigan politician)|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 charter===
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 elections===
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 democracy|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 residence===
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 incorporation==
Two mayors served under the 1806 charter.<ref name = "gov"/>
{| class="wikitable"
! #
! colspan="2"|Name
! Term
! Party
! Notes
|- {{party shading/Democratic}}
| 1
| [[File:SolomonSibleyDetroit.jpg|100px]]
| [[Solomon Sibley]]
| 1806
| [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic]]<ref name = "bios588">{{citation|title = Early history of Michigan: with biographies of state officers, members of Congress, judges and legislators |author = Stephen D. Bingham |publisher = Thorp & Godfrey, state printers| year = 1888 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=st4iAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA588|page = 588}}</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|100px]]
| [[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"/>
|}

==Reincorporation==
The following mayors served under the stronger executive mayoral system begun in the 1824 charter:<ref name="library">{{cite web|title=Mayors of the City of Detroit |publisher=Detroit Public Library |year=2006 |url=http://www.detroit.lib.mi.us/mrl/mayors.htm |access-date=September 7, 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110928123656/http://www.detroit.lib.mi.us/mrl/mayors.htm |archive-date=September 28, 2011 }} '''Note''': Term dates come from this DPL citation, save for Mayors Cockrel and Bing, and the second term of Mayor Chapin.</ref>
{| class="wikitable"
! #
! colspan="2"| Mayor
! Term
! Party
! Notes
|- {{party shading/Democratic}}
| 1
| [[File:JohnRWilliamsDetroit.jpg|100px|Mayor Williams]]
| [[John R. Williams]]
| 1824–1825
| [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic]]<ref name="mihistrev">{{citation | title = The Michigan historical review, Volumes 12–13 |author1 = Clarke Historical Library| author2 = Historical Society of Michigan | publisher = Central Michigan University |year = 1986 | page = 14 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=IrRZAAAAMAAJ&q=Kirkland+C.+Barker+democrat}}</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">{{cite web|title = John R. Williams, 1818–1829| publisher = State of Michigan Department of Military and Veteran's Affairs| url=http://www.michigan.gov/dmva/0,1607,7-126-2360_3003_3012-8765--,00.html| access-date = September 8, 2010}}</ref> 
|- {{party shading/Democratic}}
| 2
| [[File:Henry Jackson Hunt.jpg|100px]]
| [[Henry Jackson Hunt (Mayor of Detroit)|Henry Jackson Hunt]]
| 1826
| [[Democratic Party (United States)|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 [[American Civil War|Civil War]] [[General]] [[Henry Jackson Hunt]]. Hunt died while in office on September 15, 1826.<ref name = "library"/>
|- {{party shading/Democratic}}
| 3
| [[File:JohnathanKearsley.jpg|100px]]
| [[Jonathan Kearsley]]
| 1826
| [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic]]<ref name = "bios385">{{citation|title = Early history of Michigan: with biographies of state officers, members of Congress, judges and legislators |author = Stephen D. Bingham |publisher = Thorp & Godfrey, state printers| year = 1888 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=st4iAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA385|page = 385}}</ref>
| Jonathan Kearsley served in the [[War of 1812]], and was wounded badly enough to have his leg amputated.<ref name = "farm">{{citation|title = THE HISTORY OF DETROIT AND MICHIGAN |author = Silas Farmer| year = 1889  |pages = 1031–1050|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Yl06VbZ-RfwC&pg=1031}}</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 (Mayor of Detroit)|Henry Jackson Hunt]]'s term after his death, and being elected himself in 1829.<ref name = "gov"/><ref name = "library"/>
|- {{party shading/Whig}}
| 4
| [[File:Thomas Sully - Portrait of Major John Biddle.jpg|100px|Mayor Biddle]]
| [[John Biddle (Michigan)|John Biddle]]
| 1827–1828
| [[Whig Party (United States)|Whig]]<ref name = "chron1">{{Citation | editor-last = Carlisle | editor-first = Fred  | year = 1890 | title = Chronography of Notable Events in the History of the Northwest Territory and Wayne County | publisher = O.S. Gulley, Bornman | location = Detroit | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=bR4yB_oZTSYC | oclc = 13694600|pages = 236–237}}</ref>
| Major John Biddle was born in [[Philadelphia, Pennsylvania]] in 1792, the son of [[Charles Biddle]], former Vice President of Pennsylvania,<ref name = "elm">{{cite web|title = Major John Biddle|publisher = Elmwood Cemetery|url= http://www.elmwoodhistoriccemetery.org/pages/biddle.html|access-date = September 10, 2010}}</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"/>
|- {{party shading/Democratic}}
| 5
| [[File:JohnathanKearsley.jpg|100px]]
| [[Jonathan Kearsley]]
| 1829
| [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic]]<ref name="mihistrev"/>
| (see above)
|- {{party shading/Democratic}}
| 6
| [[File:JohnRWilliamsDetroit.jpg|100px|Mayor Williams]]
| [[John R. Williams]]
| 1830
| [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic]]<ref name="mihistrev"/>
| (see above)
|- {{party shading/Whig}}
| 7
| [[File:MarshallChapinDetroit.png|100px]]
| [[Marshall Chapin]]
| 1831
| [[Whig Party (United States)|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"/>
|- {{party shading/Whig}}
| 8
| [[File:LeviCook.jpg|100px]]
| [[Levi Cook]]
| 1832
| [[Whig Party (United States)|Whig]]<ref name = "bios194">{{citation|title = Early history of Michigan: with biographies of state officers, members of Congress, judges and legislators |author = Stephen D. Bingham |publisher = Thorp & Godfrey, state printers| year = 1888 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=st4iAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA194|page = 194}}</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"/>
|- {{party shading/Whig}}
| 9
| [[File:MarshallChapinDetroit.png|100px]]
| [[Marshall Chapin]]
| 1833<ref name = "farm"/>
| [[Whig Party (United States)|Whig]]<ref name="mihistrev"/>
| (see above)
|- {{party shading/Whig}}
| 10
| [[File:CharlesCTrowbridge.jpg|100px|Mayor Trowbridge]]
| [[Charles Christopher Trowbridge]]
| 1834
| [[Whig Party (United States)|Whig]]<ref name = "bios643">{{citation|title = Early history of Michigan: with biographies of state officers, members of Congress, judges and legislators |author = Stephen D. Bingham |publisher = Thorp & Godfrey, state printers| year = 1888 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=st4iAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA643|pages = 643–644}}</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">[https://books.google.com/books?id=QBQUAAAAYAAJ 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 [[Federal government of the United States|US government]] and the [[Ho-Chunk|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">[http://www.ci.detroit.mi.us/historic/districts/trowbridge_hse.pdf Charles Trowbridge House] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071011083134/http://www.ci.detroit.mi.us/historic/districts/trowbridge_hse.pdf |date=2007-10-11 }} from the city of Detroit</ref>  In 1837, he ran as the [[Whig Party (United States)|Whig]] candidate for governor of Michigan, and was defeated by [[Stevens T. Mason]].
|- {{party shading/Democratic}}
| 11
| [[File:Andrew Mack Detroit.JPG|100px]]
| [[Andrew Mack (politician)|Andrew Mack]]
| 1834
| [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic]]<ref name = "bios427">{{citation|title = Early history of Michigan: with biographies of state officers, members of Congress, judges and legislators |author = Stephen D. Bingham |publisher = Thorp & Godfrey, state printers| year = 1888 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=st4iAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA427|page = 427}}</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>{{cite book | title=Landmarks of Detroit: A History of the City | first=Robert B. | last=Ross |author2=Catlin, George B  | page=dcccxxv | year=1898 | publisher=Evening News Association | url=https://archive.org/details/landmarksdetroi00burtgoog}}</ref>  He later represented Wayne County in the Michigan Legislature.<ref name = "farm"/>
|- {{party shading/Whig}}
| 12
| [[File:LeviCook.jpg|100px]]
| [[Levi Cook]]
| 1835–1836
| [[Whig Party (United States)|Whig]]<ref name="mihistrev"/>
| (see above)
|- {{party shading/Democratic}}
| 13
| [[File:Treasurer Henry Howard.png|100px]]
| [[Henry Howard (Detroit)|Henry Howard]]
| 1837
| [[Democratic Party (United States)|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">{{citation|title = Early history of Michigan: with biographies of state officers, members of Congress, judges and legislators |author = Stephen D. Bingham |publisher = Thorp & Godfrey, state printers| year = 1888 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=st4iAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA357|pages = 356–357}}</ref>
|- {{party shading/Whig}}
| 14
| [[File:Augustus Porter.jpg|100px|Mayor Porter]]
| [[Augustus Seymour Porter]]
| 1838 – March 14, 1839 
| [[Whig Party (United States)|Whig]]<ref name = "bios530">{{citation|title = Early history of Michigan: with biographies of state officers, members of Congress, judges and legislators |author = Stephen D. Bingham |publisher = Thorp & Godfrey, state printers| year = 1888 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=st4iAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA530|page = 530}}</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">{{CongBio|inline=1|P000437}}</ref>  He resigned on March 14, 1839, to serve as [[United States Senate|United States Senator]] for [[Michigan]].<ref name = "library"/>  In 1846 he moved to [[Niagara Falls, New York]].<ref name = "congport"/>
|- {{party shading/Whig}}
| 15
| [[File:AsherBBatesDetroit.png|100px]]
| [[Asher B. Bates]]
| March 15, 1839 – April 18, 1839<ref>{{cite book | title=Landmarks of Detroit: A History of the City | first=Robert B. | last=Ross |author2=Catlin, George B  | page=dcccxxiv | year=1898 | publisher=Evening News Association | url=https://archive.org/details/landmarksdetroi00burtgoog}}</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 Party (United States)|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">{{citation |title = The city of Detroit, Michigan, 1701–1922, Volume 2|author1 =  William Stocking| author2 = Gordon K. Miller |editor = Clarence Monroe Burton | publisher = The S. J. Clarke publishing company| year = 1922 |page = 1173| url= https://books.google.com/books?id=1RgVAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA1173}}</ref>
|- {{party shading/Whig}}
| 16
| [[File:DeGarmoJones.jpg|100px]]
| [[De Garmo Jones]]
| 1839
| [[Whig Party (United States)|Whig]]<ref name = "bios380">{{citation|title = Early history of Michigan: with biographies of state officers, members of Congress, judges and legislators |author = Stephen D. Bingham |publisher = Thorp & Godfrey, state printers| year = 1888 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=st4iAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA380|page = 380}}</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"/>
|- {{party shading/Whig}}
| 17
| [[File:ZinaPitcher.jpg|100px|Mayor Pitcher]]
| [[Zina Pitcher]]
| 1840–1841
| [[Whig Party (United States)|Whig]]<ref name = "bios527">{{citation|title = Early history of Michigan: with biographies of state officers, members of Congress, judges and legislators |author = Stephen D. Bingham |publisher = Thorp & Godfrey, state printers| year = 1888 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=st4iAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA527|page = 527}}</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"/>
|- {{party shading/Democratic}}
| 18
| [[File:Douglass houghton from bentley.jpg|100px|Mayor Houghton]]
| [[Douglass Houghton]]
| 1842
| [[Democratic Party (United States)|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"/>
|- {{party shading/Whig}}
| 19
| [[File:ZinaPitcher.jpg|100px|Mayor Pitcher]]
| [[Zina Pitcher]]
| 1843
| [[Whig Party (United States)|Whig]]<ref name = "bios527"/>
| (see above)
|- {{party shading/Democratic}}
| 20
| [[File:JohnRWilliamsDetroit.jpg|100px|Mayor Williams]]
| [[John R. Williams]]
| 1844–1846
| [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic]]<ref name="mihistrev"/>
| (see above)
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| [[File:JohnAVanDykeDetroit.jpg|100px]]
| [[James A. Van Dyke]]
| 1847
| [[Whig Party (United States)|Whig]]<ref name = "bar">{{citation| title = The early bench and bar of Detroit from 1805 to the end of 1850; "Winder's memories" | author = Robert B. Ross| publisher = Richard P. Joy and Clarence M. Burton |year = 1907  |pages = 205–206 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VNHhAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA205}}</ref>
| James A. Van Dyke was a lawyer by profession, served as City Attorney for Detroit, [[Wayne County, Michigan|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"/>
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| [[File:FrederickBuhl.jpg|100px|Mayor Buhl]]
| [[Frederick Buhl]]
| 1848
| [[Whig Party (United States)|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 University Hospital|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>{{citation|title = History of Detroit, a chronicle of its progress, its industries, its institutions, and the people of the fair City of the straits, Volume 3 |author = Paul Leake |publisher = The Lewis Publishing Company| year =1912 |pages = 925–926|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1w7iAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA879}}</ref>
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| [[File:CharlesHowardDetroit.jpg|100px]]
| [[Charles Howard (Detroit)|Charles Howard]]
| 1849 
| [[Whig Party (United States)|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">{{citation|title = Detroit and its banks: the story of Detroit Bank & Trust|author = Arthur M. Woodford |publisher = Wayne State University Press| year = 1974 |isbn = 0-8143-1521-6 |page = 74|url= https://books.google.com/books?id=yavhAAAAMAAJ&q=%22Howard+was+simultaneously+president+of+both+%22}}</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">{{citation| title = Bronson Howard, dean of American dramatists| author = Lloyd Anton Frerer |publisher = Edwin Mellen Press| year = 2001 |isbn = 0-7734-7667-9  |pages = 13–16| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=b44fAQAAIAAJ&q=charles+howard}}</ref>
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| [[File:John Ladue Detroit.jpg|100px]]
| [[John Ladue]]
| 1850 
| [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic]]<ref name = "nw">{{citation | title = The Old Northwest | volume = 6 | author = Miami University (Oxford, Ohio) | publisher = Miami University | year = 1980 | page = 164 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=jVR5AAAAMAAJ}}</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.
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| [[File:Zachariah Chandler.jpg|100px|Mayor Chandler]]
| [[Zachariah Chandler]]
| 1851 
| [[Whig Party (United States)|Whig]]<ref name = "bios164">{{citation|title = Early history of Michigan: with biographies of state officers, members of Congress, judges and legislators |author = Stephen D. Bingham |publisher = Thorp & Godfrey, state printers| year = 1888 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=st4iAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA164|page = 164}}</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]].
|- {{party shading/Democratic}}
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| [[File:JOHN H HARMON DETROIT.jpg|100px]]
| [[John H. Harmon]]
| 1852–1853
| [[Democratic Party (United States)|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">{{citation| title = Fifty years and over of Akron and Summit County |author = Samuel Alanson Lane |publisher = Beacon Job Department| year = 1892 | pages = 598–601| url = https://books.google.com/books?id=nyAWAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA598}}</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">{{citation|title = The Democratic National Committee, 1830–1876 |publisher = University of Wisconsin—Madison| year = 1919 | page = 63| url= https://books.google.com/books?id=j302AAAAMAAJ&pg=PA63}}</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">{{citation| title =American biographical history of eminent and self-made men: Michigan volume, Part 1|author = F. A. Barnard |publisher = Western biographical publishing co.| year = 1878 | page = 71 |url = https://books.google.com/books?id=U-IBAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA71}}</ref>
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| [[File:OliverMoultonHydeDetroit.png|100px]]
| [[Oliver Moulton Hyde]]
| 1854 
| [[Whig Party (United States)|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"/>
|- {{party shading/Democratic}}
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| [[File:HenryLedyardMayorDetroit.jpg|100px|Mayor Ledyard]]
| [[Henry Ledyard]]
| 1855 
| [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic]]<ref name = "bios410">{{citation|title = Early history of Michigan: with biographies of state officers, members of Congress, judges and legislators |author = Stephen D. Bingham |publisher = Thorp & Godfrey, state printers| year = 1888 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=st4iAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA410|pages = 410–411}}</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 [[United States Secretary of State|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"/>
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| [[File:OliverMoultonHydeDetroit.png|100px]]
| [[Oliver Moulton Hyde]]
| 1856–1857
| [[Whig Party (United States)|Whig]]
| (see above)
|- {{party shading/Democratic}}
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| [[File:JohnPattonDetroit.jpg|100px]]
| [[John Patton (Detroit mayor)|John Patton]]
| 1858–1859
| [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic]]<ref name = "burt981">{{citation|title = The city of Detroit, Michigan, 1701–1922; Volume 3 |author1 = Clarence Monroe Burton| author2 = William Stocking| author3 = Gordon K. Miller |publisher = The S. J. Clarke publishing company| year = 1922 |pages = 981–982|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FTTiAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA981}}</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 (representative)|consul]] at [[Amherstburg, Ontario]].<ref name = "burt981"/>
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| [[File:ChristianHBuhlDetroit.jpg|100px|Mayor Buhl]]
| [[Christian H. Buhl]]
| 1860–1861
| [[Republican Party (United States)|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 Steel Corporation|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">{{citation|title = Compendium of History and Biography of the City of Detroit and Wayne County, Michigan|publisher = Henry Taylor & Co| year = 1908 | pages = 320–322| isbn=9783849678371 |  url= https://books.google.com/books?id=IEk22rbVL9QC&pg=320}}</ref>  He was an alderman as well as mayor of Detroit.
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| [[File:WilliamCDuncanDetroit2.jpg|100px]]
| [[William C. Duncan]]
| 1862–1863
| [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic]]<ref name = "gen714">{{citation|title = General history of the state of Michigan: with biographical sketches, portrait engravings, and numerous illustrations. A complete history of the Peninsular state from its earliest settlement to the present time |author = Charles Richard Tuttle | publisher = R. D. S. Tyler & co. |year =1874 |page = 714| url = https://books.google.com/books?id=zk1ZDp8Z6hcC&pg=PA713}}</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"/>
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| [[File:KirklandCBarkerDetroit.jpg|100px]]
| [[Kirkland C. Barker]]
| 1864–1865
| [[Democratic Party (United States)|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">{{citation| title =American biographical history of eminent and self-made men: Michigan volume, Part 1|author = F. A. Barnard |publisher = Western biographical publishing co.| year = 1878 | pages = 9–10 |url = https://books.google.com/books?id=U-IBAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA9}}</ref>  He died in a boating accident near his home on [[Grosse Ile, Michigan]].<ref name = "farm"/>
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| [[File:MerrillIMillsDetroitMayor.jpg|100px|Mayor Mills]]
| [[Merrill I. Mills]]
| 1866–1867
| [[Democratic Party (United States)|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"/>
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| [[File:WilliamWWheatonDetroit.jpg|100px]]
| [[William W. Wheaton]]
| 1868–1871
| [[Democratic Party (United States)|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"/>
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| [[File:HughMoffatDetroit2.jpg|100px]]
| [[Hugh Moffat (politician)|Hugh Moffat]]
| 1872–1875
| [[Republican Party (United States)|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"/>
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| [[File:AlexanderLewisDetroitMayor.jpg|100px]]
| [[Alexander Lewis (mayor)|Alexander Lewis]]
| 1876–1877
| [[Democratic Party (United States)|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"/>
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| [[File:George C Langdon Detroit.jpg|100px]]
| [[George C. Langdon]]
| 1878–1879
| [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic]]<ref name = "chron2">{{Citation | editor-last = Carlisle | editor-first = Fred  | year = 1890 | title = Chronography of Notable Events in the History of the Northwest Territory and Wayne County | publisher = O.S. Gulley, Bornman | location = Detroit | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=bR4yB_oZTSYC&pg=416 |page = 416}}</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">{{citation|title = The government of the city of Detroit and Wayne County, Michigan: 1701 to 1907, historical and biographical| year = 1907 |page = 35| isbn = 9780598455529 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Y6vhAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA35}}</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"/>
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| [[File:WilliamGThompsonDetroit.jpg|100px]]
| [[William G. Thompson]]
| 1880–1883
| [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]]<ref name = "nyt2">{{cite news | title = Mr. Hill's Lieutenants | date = March 3, 1892 | newspaper = New York Times | url = https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1892/03/03/104119564.pdf}}</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">{{citation | title = Detroit | author1 = William Stocking| author2 = Detroit News | author3 = Stephen Bromley McCracken | publisher = The [[Evening News Association]]| year = 1902  | page = 71 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=Xr7PAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA71}}</ref>  He also served as a state senator, being elected in 1894.<ref name = "gov35">{{citation|title = The government of the city of Detroit and Wayne County, Michigan: 1701 to 1907, historical and biographical| year = 1907 |pages = 35–36| isbn = 9780598455529 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Y6vhAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA35}}</ref><ref name = "freep1">{{cite news | title = DIED AT YONKERS | newspaper = Detroit Free Press | date = Jul 21, 1904}}</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">{{cite news | title = Both Men Laid Up: A fierce fight between two Detroit politicians | newspaper = New York Times | date = May 6, 1888 | url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1888/05/06/106321221.pdf}}</ref>  William G. Thompson died in 1904 of injuries received after being knocked down by a bicycle.<ref name = "gov35"/>
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| [[File:StephenBenedictGrummondDetroitMayor.jpg|100px]]
| [[Stephen Benedict Grummond]]
| 1884–1885
| [[Republican Party (United States)|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"/>
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| [[File:ChamberlainMarvinHDetroit.jpg|100px]]
| [[Marvin H. Chamberlain]]
| 1886–1887
| [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic]]<ref name = "farm"/>
| Marvin H. Chamberlain was a wholesale liquor distributor.<ref name = "det1860">{{citation | title = Detroit, 1860–1899| author = David Lee Poremba | publisher = Arcadia Publishing| year = 1998 | isbn = 0-7385-3373-4  | page = 59 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=hoYBkSWca3cC&pg=PA59}}</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">{{citation | title = The collection and disposal of municipal waste |author = William Francis Morse | publisher = The Municipal Journal and Engineer| year = 1908 | page = 373 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=67MAAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA373 }}</ref> He later built similar plants in other cities.<ref name = "det1860"/>
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| [[File:JohnPridgeonJrDetroit.jpg|100px]]
| [[John Pridgeon Jr.]]
| 1888–1889
| [[Democratic Party (United States)|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">{{citation| title = HISTORICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL, COMPRISING A SYNOPSIS OF GENERAL HISTORY OF THE STATE, AND BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES OF MEN |year =  1900 |publisher = Western Publishing and Engraving Co.|pages = 179–180| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0V85bp_2F4MC&pg=PA179}}</ref>
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| [[File:HazenSPingreeDetroitMayor.jpg|100px|Mayor Pingree]]
| [[Hazen S. Pingree]]
| 1890–1897
| [[Republican Party (United States)|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 [[American Civil War|Civil War]].<ref name = "cyclo144">{{citation | title = CYCLOPEDIA OF MICHIGAN: HISTORICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL, COMPRISING A SYNOPSIS OF GENERAL HISTORY OF THE STATE, ABD BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES OF MEN | author = Western Publishing and Engraving Co. | publisher = Western Publishing and Engraving Co. | year =  1900 | pages = 144–146 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=0V85bp_2F4MC&pg=144}}</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">{{cite book |first=George B. |last=Catlin |title=The story of Detroit |orig-year=1900 |url=http://name.umdl.umich.edu/apk1036.0001.001 |access-date=2006-06-15 |year=2005 |publisher=University of Michigan Library |location=Ann Arbor, Mich. |pages=585–630 |chapter=Chapters CI through CVII|chapter-url = http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/pageviewer-idx?c=micounty;cc=micounty;q1=Pingree;rgn=full%20text;idno=APK1036.0001.001;didno=APK1036.0001.001;view=image;seq=00000609}}</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 day|eight-hour workday]] was endorsed; a regulated income tax was supported; and railroad taxation was advocated.<ref name = "nag">{{cite web | title = Michigan Governor Hazen Stuart Pingree | publisher = National Governors Association | url = http://www.nga.org/portal/site/nga/menuitem.29fab9fb4add37305ddcbeeb501010a0/?vgnextoid=9ca8e8569a313010VgnVCM1000001a01010aRCRD&vgnextchannel=e449a0ca9e3f1010VgnVCM1000001a01010aRCRD | access-date = October 30, 2010}}</ref>
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| [[File:William Richert Detroit.jpg|100px]]
| [[William Richert (mayor)|William Richert]]
| March 22, 1897 – April 5, 1897
| [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]]<ref name="Muni">{{citation | title = Municipal manual of the city of Detroit |author = Detroit (Mich.) City Clerk | year = 1894 | page = 9 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=PWI4AAAAMAAJ&pg=PA9}}</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">{{citation | title = The government of the city of Detroit and Wayne County, Michigan: 1701 to 1907, historical and biographical, illustrated |publisher = Manusa & Wieber |  year = 1907  |pages = 67–68 |isbn = 9780598455529 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=Y6vhAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA68}}</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"/>
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| [[File:WilliamCMayburyDetroit.jpg|100px|Mayor Maybury]]
| [[William C. Maybury]]
| 1897–1904
| [[Democratic Party (United States)|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">{{CongBio|M000280|inline = 1}}</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"/>
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| [[File:GeorgePCoddDetroit.jpg|100px]]
| [[George P. Codd]]
| 1905–1906
| [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]]<ref name="mihistrev"/>
| George P. Codd studied as a lawyer and was admitted to the bar in 1892.<ref name = "congcodd">{{CongBio|C000579 | inline = 1}}</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 court#State courts|circuit judge]] of [[Wayne County, Michigan|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"/>
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| [[File:William B. Thompson (ca 1912).jpg|100px]]
| [[William Barlum Thompson]]
| 1907–1908
| [[Democratic Party (United States)|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">{{citation|title = The government of the city of Detroit and Wayne County, Michigan: 1701 to 1907, historical and biographical| year = 1907 |pages = 52–55 | isbn = 9780598455529 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Y6vhAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA52}}</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"/>
|- {{party shading/Republican}}
| 48
| [[File:PhilipBreitmeyer.jpg|100px]]
| [[Philip Breitmeyer]]
| 1909–1910
| [[Republican Party (United States)|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">{{citation|title = The city of Detroit, Michigan, 1701–1922; Volume 3 |author1 = Clarence Monroe Burton| author2 = William Stocking| author3 = Gordon K. Miller |publisher = The S. J. Clarke publishing company| year = 1922 |pages = 636–637|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FTTiAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA636}}</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">{{citation|title = The government of the city of Detroit and Wayne County, Michigan: 1701 to 1907, historical and biographical| year = 1907 |pages = 145–146| isbn = 9780598455529 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Y6vhAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA145}}</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 Couzens|Frank]].<ref name = "bcs">{{cite news | title = In Detroit, Couzens is Big Winner | newspaper = The Border Cities Star | date = Nov 8, 1933 | url = https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=7Q4_AAAAIBAJ&pg=4507,1500271}}</ref>
|- {{party shading/Democratic}}
| 49
| [[File:William B. Thompson (ca 1912).jpg|100px]]
| [[William Barlum Thompson]]
| 1911–1912
| [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic]]<ref name="mihistrev"/>
| (see above)
|- {{party shading/Republican}}
| 50
| [[File:OscarBMarxDetroitMayor.jpg|100px]]
| [[Oscar Marx]]
| 1913–1918
| [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]]<ref name="mihistrev"/>
| Oscar Marx was born on July 14, 1866, in [[Wayne County, Michigan]], the son of German immigrants.<ref name = "lud">{{cite news | title = Oscar B. Marx dies; ex-Detroit mayor | newspaper =Ludington Daily News | date = Nov 23, 1923 | url = https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=JPEuAAAAIBAJ&pg=2599,4652629}}</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">{{citation | title = The city of Detroit, Michigan, 1701–1922; Volume 3 | author1 = Clarence Monroe Burton | author2 =  William Stocking| author3 = Gordon K. Miller |publisher = The S. J. Clarke publishing company| year = 1922 | page = 608 | url= https://books.google.com/books?id=FTTiAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA608}}</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 Francis Dodge|John Dodge]], and the three men controlled the [[Republican Party (United States)|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">{{citation | title = The Dodge brothers: the men, the motor cars, and the legacy | author= Charles K. Hyde | publisher = Wayne State University Press| year = 2005 | isbn = 0-8143-3246-3 | page = 150 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=P9NPkoZWSpwC&pg=PA150}}</ref>
|}

==Non-partisan elections==
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">{{cite web| title = Charter of the City of Detroit| year = 1918| url = http://elibrary.wayne.edu/articles/1374459.5143/1.PDF| access-date = September 30, 2015}}{{Dead link|date=March 2020 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> This provision has been repeated in the subsequent city charters of 1974, 1997, and 2012:<ref name = "city charter 2012">{{cite web| title = City of Detroit Charters Through History|year = 2012 |url=http://www.detcharter.com/charter/| access-date = September 30, 2015}}</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.
{| class="wikitable"
! #
! colspan="2"| Mayor
! Term
! Party
! Notes
|- {{party shading/Republican}}
| 51
| [[File:James Couzens.jpg|100px|Mayor Couzens]]
| [[James J. Couzens]]
| 1919–1922
| [[Republican Party (United States)|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">{{citation | title = Henry's lieutenants| author = Ford Richardson Bryan |publisher = Wayne State University Press | year = 1993 |isbn = 0-8143-3213-7 |pages = 67–73 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=GONRMmAZRz4C&pg=PA67}}</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">{{CongBio|C000812 | inline = 1}}</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"/>
|- {{party shading/Republican}}
| 52
| [[File:John C Lodge Detroit.jpg|100px]]
| [[John C. Lodge]]
| December 5, 1922 – April 9, 1923
| [[Republican Party (United States)|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">{{cite news |title = In Detroit | newspaper = [[TIME]] magazine | date = January 23, 1928 | url = http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,731409,00.html | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20090614000617/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,731409,00.html | url-status = dead | archive-date = June 14, 2009 }}</ref><ref name="libcouncil">{{cite web|title=Detroit City Council, 1919 to present |publisher=Detroit Public Library |url=http://www.detroit.lib.mi.us/mrl/Council.htm |access-date=November 6, 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110928123713/http://www.detroit.lib.mi.us/mrl/Council.htm |archive-date=September 28, 2011 }}</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, [[M-10 (Michigan highway)|the John C. Lodge Freeway]] (M-10) in Detroit was named after him.<ref name = "pglodge">{{cite web | title = Index to Politicians: Lockyear to Lofvegren | publisher = The Political Graveyard | url = http://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lockyer-loftus.html | access-date = November 6, 2010}}</ref> 
|- {{party shading/Democratic}}
| 53
| [[File:FrankEDoremusDetroit.jpg|100px]]
| [[Frank Ellsworth Doremus]]
| April 9, 1923 – June 10, 1924
| [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic]]<ref name="mihistrev"/>
| Doremus was a newspaperman and lawyer.<ref name = "congdoremus">{{CongBio|D000431 |inline = 1}}</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">{{citation | title = Soliciting or receiving assessments, subscriptions, or contributions for political purposes |author = United States. Congress. House. Committee on Election of President, Vice-President, and Representatives in Congress |publisher = Govt. print. off. | year = 1914 | page = 3 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=jC8vAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA3}}</ref> Doremus was elected mayor in 1923, but resigned on June 10, 1924, due to ill-health.<ref name = "library"/><ref name = "man">{{citation | title = Municipal manual of the city of Detroit | year =  1984}}</ref>
|-{{party shading/Republican}}
| 54
| [[File:Joseph A. Martin.jpg|100px]]
| [[Joseph A. Martin]]
| June 10, 1924 – August 2, 1924
| [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]]
| Joseph A. Martin was Commissioner of Public Works for Detroit from 1920 to 1923.<ref name = "murph">{{citation | title = Frank Murphy, Volume 2 |author = Sidney Fine | publisher = University of Michigan Press | year = 1975 |isbn = 0-472-32949-9 | page = 172 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=ecbzqNewkcIC&pg=PA172}}</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 (Detroit mayor)|John W. Smith]] (with [[Charles Bowles (mayor)|Charles Bowles]] as the write-in candidate).<ref name = "reader">{{citation | title = A Michigan reader: 1865 to the present |author1 = Robert Mark Warner | author2 = C. Warren Vander Hill | publisher = Eerdmans | year = 1974 | isbn = 0-8028-7030-9  | page = 175 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=ronhAAAAMAAJ&q=%22Joseph+a+Martin%22+%22john+w+smith%22}}</ref>  Joseph A. Martin died in 1928.<ref name = "nyt3">{{cite news | title = Former Detroit Official Killed | newspaper = The New York Times | date = October 18, 1928}}</ref>
|- {{party shading/Republican}}
| 55
| [[File:John C Lodge Detroit.jpg|100px]]
| [[John C. Lodge]]
| August 2, 1924 – November 21, 1924
| [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]]<ref name="mihistrev"/>
| (see above)
|- {{party shading/Republican}}
| 56
| [[File:John W Smith Detroit.jpg|100px]]
| [[John W. Smith (Detroit mayor)|John W. Smith]]
| November 21, 1924 – January 9, 1928
| [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]]<ref name="mihistrev"/>
| In 1911, Smith was appointed Deputy State Labor Commissioner by Governor [[Chase S. Osborn]].<ref name = "bridge">{{citation | title = Title The Ambassador Bridge: a monument to progress| author = Philip Parker Mason | publisher = Wayne State University Press | year = 1987 | isbn = 0-8143-1840-1 | pages = 75–76 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=wC3TlAlVdHIC&pg=PA76}}</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">{{cite news | title = KELLY, WHEALAN PLEDGE HELP TO RECOVERY DRIVE | newspaper = Chicago Tribune | date = Sep 9, 1933}}</ref> 
|- {{party shading/Republican}}
| 57
| [[File:John C Lodge Detroit.jpg|100px]]
| [[John C. Lodge]]
| January 10, 1928 – January 14, 1930
| [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]]<ref name="mihistrev"/>
| (see above)
|- {{party shading/Republican}}
| 58
| [[File:Charles-bowles-mayor.jpg|100px]]
| [[Charles Bowles (mayor)|Charles Bowles]]
| January 14, 1930 – September 22, 1930
| [[Republican Party (United States)|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">{{citation | title = Remaking respectability: African American women in interwar Detroit | author = Victoria W. Wolcott | publisher = UNC Press Books |year = 2001 |isbn = 0-8078-4966-9  |page = 141 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=Nul3qGufrkcC&pg=PA141}}</ref> He ran third in the primary election behind [[John W. Smith (Detroit mayor)|John W. Smith]] and [[Joseph A. Martin]],<ref name = "kkk">{{citation | title = The Ku Klux Klan in the city, 1915–1930 | author = Kenneth T. Jackson | publisher = Oxford University Press m| year = 1968 }}</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">{{citation | title = Detroit perspectives: crossroads and turning points | author = Wilma Wood Henrickson | publisher = Wayne State University Press | year = 1991 |isbn = 0-8143-2013-9 | pages = 340–344 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=RvRm9T66XUsC&pg=PA341}}</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">{{cite news | title = Bowles First Detroit Mayor To Be Recalled | newspaper = Lewiston Daily Sun | date = Jul 24, 1930| url = https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=PowgAAAAIBAJ&pg=4739,1848878&dq=charles-bowles&hl=en}}</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">{{cite news | title = Bowles Loses But Wins Over Recall Crowd | newspaper = Sarasota Herald | date = Sep 10, 1930 |url = https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=CxseAAAAIBAJ&pg=1278,5669582&dq=charles-bowles&hl=en}}</ref>
|- {{party shading/Democratic}}
| 59
| [[File:Justice Frank Murphy.jpg|100px|Mayor Murphy]]
| [[Frank Murphy]]
| September 23, 1930 – May 10, 1933
| [[Democratic Party (United States)|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">{{citation | title =Frank Murphy, Volume 2 | author = Sidney Fine | publisher = University of Michigan Press | year = 1975 | isbn = 0-472-32949-9 | page = 177 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=ecbzqNewkcIC&pg=PA177}}</ref>  He ran against [[Charles Bowles (mayor)|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">{{cite web | title = Biographical Directory of Federal Judges: Murphy, Frank  | publisher = Federal Judicial Center | url = http://www.fjc.gov/servlet/nGetInfo?jid=1722&cid=999&ctype=na&instate=na | access-date = November 8, 2010}}</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"/>
|- {{party shading/Republican}}
| 60
| [[File:Frank Couzens.jpg|100px]]
| [[Frank Couzens]]
| May 10, 1933 – September 8, 1933 
| [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]]<ref name="mihistrev"/>
| Frank Couzens was the son of [[James J. Couzens]].<ref name="whofc">{{cite news | title = Modest rites for Couzens | newspaper = The Windsor Daily Star | date =  Nov 1, 1950 | url = https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=xyY_AAAAIBAJ&pg=6383,130064&dq=frank-couzens+detroit&hl=en}}</ref>  After a stint on the Detroit Street Railways Commission,<ref name = "herald">{{cite news | title = Following in the Footsteps of His Dad| newspaper = Spartanburg Herald-Journal | date = Nov 15, 1935 | url = https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=KU0sAAAAIBAJ&pg=4871,1203380&dq=couzens+detroit&hl=en}}</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 Party (United States)|Republican]] nomination for the office.<ref name = "miami">{{cite news | title = Couzens To Make Mayoralty Drive | newspaper = Miami News | date =  Aug 6, 1933 | url = https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=6S0uAAAAIBAJ&pg=3107,2664706&dq=frank+couzens&hl=en}}</ref>  He was then elected mayor twice, filling out four years in office.<ref name = "herald"/>
|- {{party shading/Republican}}
| 61
| [[File:John W Smith Detroit.jpg|100px]]
| [[John W. Smith (Detroit mayor)|John W. Smith]]
| September 8, 1933 – January 2, 1934
| [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]]<ref name="mihistrev"/>
| (see above)
|- {{party shading/Republican}}
| 62
| [[File:Frank Couzens.jpg|100px]]
| [[Frank Couzens]]
| January 2, 1934 – January 3, 1938 
| [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]]<ref name="mihistrev"/>
| (see above)
|- {{party shading/Republican}}
| 63
| [[File:Readingmayor39.jpg|100px]]
| [[Richard Reading]]
| January 4, 1938 – January 1, 1940
| [[Republican Party (United States)|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">{{citation | title = Who's Who in Detroit, 1935–36 | publisher = Walter Romig & Co | year = 1935 | page = 264}}</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">{{cite news | title = CIO Candidate is Defeated in Detroit Vote | newspaper = Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | date = Nov 3, 1937 | url = https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=1U4nAAAAIBAJ&pg=2064,1924001&dq=richard-reading&hl=en}}</ref> However, once in the office, Reading engaged in graft, selling protection to numbers racketeers and promotions to police officers.<ref name = "jeffries">{{citation | title = Detroit and the "Good War": the World War II letters of Mayor Edward Jeffries and friends |author1 = Edward Jeffries | author2 = Dominic J. Capeci | publisher = University Press of Kentucky |year = 1996 | page = 6 | isbn = 0-8131-1974-X | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=mGds2X-qNAAC&q=%22richard+w+Reading%22&pg=PA6}}</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">{{cite news | title = JEFFIES LIKELY WINNER; Detroit Mayor Seeks Fifth Term | newspaper = New York Times | date = Nov 2, 1947}}</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">{{cite news | title = Kilpatrick among other Detroit officials who have faced legal trouble | newspaper = The Detroit News| date = March 24, 2008 | url = http://detnews.com/article/20080324/METRO/803240424/Kilpatrick-among-other-Detroit-officials-who-have-faced-legal-trouble#ixzz150Q19JY8}}</ref> 
|- {{party shading/Republican}}
| 64
| [[File:Edward Jeffries.JPG|100px]]
| [[Edward Jeffries]]
| January 2, 1940 – January 5, 1948 
| [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]]<ref name="mihistrev"/>
| Edward Jeffries was the son of Recorder's Court Judge and civic servant Edward Jeffries Sr.<ref name = "letter">{{citation| title = Detroit and the "Good War": the World War II letters of Mayor Edward Jeffries and friends |author1 = Edward Jeffries | author2 = Dominic J. Capeci | editor1 = Edward Jeffries | editor2 = Dominic J. Capeci | publisher = University Press of Kentucky | year =1996 | isbn = 0-8131-1974-X | pages = 1–42 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=mGds2X-qNAAC&pg=PA2}}</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"/>
|- {{party shading/Democratic}}
| 65
| [[File:Eugene I. Van Antwerp.jpg|100px]]
| [[Eugene Van Antwerp]]
| January 6, 1948 – January 2, 1950
| [[Democratic Party (United States)|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">{{citation | title = Who's Who in Detroit, 1935–36 | publisher = Walter Romig & Co | year = 1935 | page = 324}}</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">{{cite web|title=Past Commanders-in-Chief |publisher=Veterans of Foreign Wars |url=http://www.vfw.org/resources/pdf/Past%20Chiefs%202010.pdf |access-date=November 12, 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100617161906/http://www.vfw.org/resources/pdf/Past%20Chiefs%202010.pdf |archive-date=June 17, 2010 }}</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"/>
|- {{party shading/Republican}}
| 66
| [[File:Albert Cobo.jpg|100px]]
| [[Albert Cobo]]
| January 3, 1950 – September 12, 1957
| [[Republican Party (United States)|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">{{cite news | title = Mayor Cobo Dies at 63 | newspaper = The Windsor Daily Star | date = Sep 13, 1957 | url = https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=pSU_AAAAIBAJ&pg=5525,2191561&dq=cobo&hl=en}}</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">{{cite news | title = Michigan's Governor Matches Ike's Victory | newspaper = Ottawa Citizen | date = Nov 7, 1956 | url =https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=iUolAAAAIBAJ&pg=4775,1575321&dq=albert-cobo&hl=en}}</ref>  He declined to run for a fourth term as mayor, but died in office near the end of his term.<ref name = "library"/>
|- {{party shading/Republican}}
| 67
| [[File:Louis Miriani Mayor of Detroit.jpg|100px]]
| [[Louis Miriani]]
| September 12, 1957 – January 2, 1962
| [[Republican Party (United States)|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">{{cite news | author = Joseph Turrini | title = Phooie on Louie: African American Detroit and the Election of Jerry Cavanagh | newspaper = Michigan History | date = Nov–Dec 1999 | url = http://www.michigan.gov/documents/dnr/mhc_mag_phooie-on-louie_308397_7.pdf}}</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">{{cite news | title = Louis C. Miriani, 90, Former Detroit Mayor | newspaper = New York Times | date = October 21, 1987 | url = https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9B0DEED6173BF932A15753C1A961948260}}</ref>  He retired from politics after his conviction.<ref name = "nytmi"/> Most recent Republican to serve as mayor of Detroit.
|- {{party shading/Democratic}}
| 68
| [[File:Jerome Cavanagh (12932052063a).jpg|100px]]
| [[Jerome Cavanagh]]
| January 2, 1962 – January 5, 1970
| [[Democratic Party (United States)|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 [[12th Street Riot|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"/>
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| [[File:Roman S. Gribbs.jpg|100px]]
| [[Roman Gribbs]]
| January 6, 1970 – January 1, 1974
| [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic]]<ref name="mihistrev"/>
| Gribbs served as an assistant prosecutor from 1956 to 1964 and as [[sheriff]] of [[Wayne County, Michigan|Wayne County]] in 1968 and 1969 before deciding to run for mayor.<ref name = "biogribbs">{{citation | title = 1999–2000 Michigan Manual | chapter = JUDGES OF THE COURT OF APPEALS | year = 1993 | publisher = Legislative Council, State of Michigan | page = [https://archive.org/details/michiganmanual00mich/page/585 585] | isbn = 1-878210-06-8 | chapter-url = https://archive.org/details/michiganmanual00mich/page/585 }}</ref>  Gribbs served a single term as mayor, declining to seek re-election.<ref name = "piast">{{cite web | title = Biographies of Piast Institute Staff, Directors and Fellows: Hon. Roman H. Gribbs | publisher = Piast Institute | url = http://www.piastinstitute.org/gribbs.html | access-date = November 18, 2010 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20101126195126/http://piastinstitute.org/gribbs.html | archive-date = November 26, 2010 | url-status = dead }}</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"/>
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| [[File:ColemanYoung1981a.jpg|100px|Mayor Young]]
| [[Coleman Young]]
| January 1, 1974 – January 3, 1994
| [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic]]<ref name="mihistrev"/>
| Coleman Young was born in [[Tuscaloosa, Alabama]], but moved to Detroit when he was five.<ref name = "nytyoung">{{cite news | title = Coleman A. Young, 79, Mayor of Detroit And Political Symbol for Blacks, Is Dead | newspaper = New York Times | date = November 30, 1997 | url = https://www.nytimes.com/1997/11/30/us/coleman-a-young-79-mayor-of-detroit-and-political-symbol-for-blacks-is-dead.html?scp=1&sq=%22coleman%20young%22&st=cse}}</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"/> 
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| [[File:Mayor of Detroit Dennis Archer Portrait (1).jpg|100px|Mayor Archer]]
| [[Dennis Archer]]
| January 3, 1994 – December 31, 2001
| [[Democratic Party (United States)|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">{{cite web | title = Biography: DENNIS W. ARCHER | publisher = American Bar Association | url = http://www.abanet.org/media/archerbio.html | access-date = November 7, 2010}}</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">{{cite news | title = Detroit Mayor Dennis W. Archer Decides Not to Seek Reelection | author = Larry Jones | newspaper = US Mayor Newspaper | date = April 30, 2001 | url = http://www.usmayors.org/usmayornewspaper/documents/04_30_01/archer.asp | access-date = November 19, 2010 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20110101055244/http://www.usmayors.org/usmayornewspaper/documents/04_30_01/archer.asp | archive-date = January 1, 2011 | url-status = dead }}</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"/>
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| [[File:Kwame Kilpatrick.jpg|100px|Mayor Kilpatrick]]
| [[Kwame Kilpatrick]]
| January 1, 2002 – September 18, 2008
| [[Democratic Party (United States)|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">{{cite news | title = Detroit Mayoral Rivals Wage Close Battle of Generations | author =  DANNY HAKIM | newspaper = New York Times | date =  October 30, 2001| url = https://www.nytimes.com/2001/10/30/us/detroit-mayoral-rivals-wage-close-battle-of-generations.html?ref=kwame_m_kilpatrick}}</ref> The younger Kilpatrick began his political career by running for the Michigan House seat his mother vacated in 1996,<ref name = "beatty">{{cite news | title =Beatty quits, says she regrets 'devastation' caused by scandal | newspaper = Detroit Free Press | date = January 28, 2008 | url = http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080128/NEWS01/80128035/0/NEWS06&theme=KILPATRICK012008}}</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">{{cite web | title = Kwame M. Kilpatrick | publisher = Detroit Free Press | url = http://www.detroitnews.com/article/20140122/METRO01/301220054#ixzz2taclYiUR | access-date = January 14, 2014}}</ref>
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| [[File:Ken Cockrel (1).jpg|100px|Mayor Cockrel]]
| [[Kenneth Cockrel Jr.]]
| September 18, 2008 – May 11, 2009
| [[Democratic Party (United States)|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">{{cite news | title = The next in line: Cockrel not eager, but ready to be mayor if Kilpatrick leaves post | newspaper = Crain's Detroit Business | date = February 11, 2008| url = http://www.crainsdetroit.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080211/SUB/319218324}}</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">{{cite news | title = Interim Leader and Novice to Face Off in Detroit Race Twitter | author = Nick Bunkley| author-link = Nick Bunkley| newspaper = New York Times | date =  February 25, 2009 | url = https://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/26/us/26detroit.html?ref=ken_cockrel_jr}}</ref><ref name = "foxkc">{{cite web | title = New Detroit Mayor Ken Cockrel Jr. Takes Oath of Office | date =  September 19, 2008 | publisher = Fox News | url = https://www.foxnews.com/story/new-detroit-mayor-ken-cockrel-jr-takes-oath-of-office | access-date = November 18, 2010}}</ref>  However, Cockrel lost the ensuing special election to [[Dave Bing]], and returned to his seat on the city council.<ref name = "nytbing">{{cite news | title = Detroit Chooses Political Newcomer for Mayor | author = NICK BUNKLEY | date = May 6, 2009 | newspaper = New York Times | url = https://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/07/us/07detroit.html?ref=ken_cockrel_jr}}</ref>  Cockrel was re-elected to the city council later in the year.<ref name = "mlivekc">{{cite news | title = Detroit Mayor Dave Bing faces tough problems after re-election; Charles Pugh promises new direction for council | newspaper = Detroit News | date =  November 4, 2009 | url = http://www.mlive.com/news/detroit/index.ssf/2009/11/detroit_mayor_dave_bing_faces.html}}</ref>
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| [[File:David Bing 3928ded5aacd10b21cded561668a0444 (1).jpg|100px|Mayor Bing]]
| [[Dave Bing]]
| May 11, 2009 – December 31, 2013
| [[Democratic Party (United States)|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">{{cite news | title = Dave Bing | work = [[The New York Times]] | url = http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/b/dave_bing/index.html?inline=nyt-per | access-date = November 18, 2010}}</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">{{cite news | title = In Virginia, McDonnell Ends Democrats' Streak | author =  IAN URBINA | date = November 3, 2009 | newspaper = New York Times | url = https://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/04/us/04vote.html?ref=dave_bing}}</ref>
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| [[File:Mike Duggan 2013 (cropped).jpg|100px|Mayor-elect Duggan]]
| [[Mike Duggan]]
| January 1, 2014 – present
| [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic]]
| Mike Duggan served as the deputy [[County Executive]] and [[prosecutor]] for [[Wayne County, Michigan|Wayne County]], and was president and CEO of the [[Detroit Medical Center]] from 2004 to 2012. He resigned to run for Detroit mayor;<ref>{{cite news|last=Helms |first=Matt |title=Mike Duggan to step down as DMC chief in pursuit of Detroit mayoral bid |url=http://www.freep.com/article/20121108/NEWS01/121108039/Mike-Duggan-step-down-DMC-chief-pursuit-Detroit-mayoral-bid |date=8 November 2012 |newspaper=Detroit Free Press}}</ref>  after failing to qualify for the primary ballot, he waged a successful write-in campaign to qualify for the run-off election,<ref>{{cite news|title=How underdog story propelled Mike Duggan to top vote-getter in Detroit primary|url=http://www.freep.com/article/20130807/NEWS01/308070163/Detroit-mayoral-race-Mike-Duggan-Benny-Napoleon|date=7 August 2013|access-date=29 August 2013|newspaper=Detroit Free Press}}</ref> where he beat [[Benny Napoleon]]. Duggan is the first [[White American|white]] mayor since [[Roman Gribbs]], who served when the city was still predominantly white. 
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==See also==
{{Portal|Michigan}}
* [[Timeline of Detroit]]
* [[History of Detroit]]
* [[Decline of Detroit]]

==References==
{{Reflist|2}}

==External links==
*[http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/pageviewer-idx?c=micounty;cc=micounty;sid=3cd2e561fb3a140adee056a4ca2f8317;q1=detroit;q2=mayor;cite1=detroit;cite2=wayne;cite1restrict=title;cite2restrict=title;op2=and;op3=and;rgn=pages;idno=BAD1459.0001.001;view=image;seq=00000013 The Early Government of Detroit]
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