PoliticalGraveyard.com
The Political Graveyard: A Database of American History
Mayors of Detroit (including Greenfield Township, Delray, Woodmere), Michigan


Mayors of Detroit, 1806-2012 (may be incomplete!)
Solomon Sibley 1806 John R. Williams 1824-25 Henry J. Hunt 1826 Jonathan Kearsley 1826 John Biddle 1827-28 Jonathan Kearsley 1829 John R. Williams 1829-30 Marshall Chapin 1831 Levi Cook 1832 Marshall Chapin 1833 Charles Christopher Trowbridge 1834 Andrew Mack 1834 Levi Cook 1835-36 Henry Howard 1837 Augustus S. Porter 1838 De Garmo Jones 1839-40 Zina Pitcher 1840-41 Douglass Houghton 1842 Zina Pitcher 1843 John R. Williams 1844-46 James Van Dyke 1847 Frederick Buhl 1848 Charles D. Howard 1849-50 John Ladue 1850-51 Zachariah Chandler 1851-52 John H. Harmon 1852-54 Oliver M. Hyde 1854-55 Henry Ledyard 1855-56 Oliver M. Hyde 1856-57 John Patton 1858-59 Christian H. Buhl 1860-61 William C. Duncan 1862-63 Kirkland C. Barker 1864-65 Merrill I. Mills 1866-67 William W. Wheaton 1868-71 Hugh Moffat 1872-75 Alexander Lewis 1876-77 George Langdon 1878-79 William Thompson 1880-83 Stephen B. Grummond 1884-85 Marvin H. Chamberlain 1886-87 John Pridgeon, Jr. 1888-89 Hazen S. Pingree 1890-97 William Richert 1897 William C. Maybury 1897-1904 George P. Codd 1905-06 William B. Thompson 1907-08 Philip Breitmeyer 1909-10 William B. Thompson 1911-12 Oscar B. Marx 1913-18 James Couzens 1919-22 John C. Lodge 1922-23 Frank E. Doremus 1923-24 John C. Lodge 1924 Joseph Martin 1924 John Smith 1924-27 John C. Lodge 1927-29 Charles E. Bowles 1930 Frank Murphy 1930-33 Frank Couzens 1933-38 John Smith 1933 Richard Reading 1938-40 Edward J. Jeffries, Jr. 1940-48 Eugene I. Van Antwerp 1948-49 Albert E. Cobo 1950-57 Louis C. Miriani 1957-62 Jerome P. Cavanagh 1962-69 Roman S. Gribbs 1970-74 Coleman A. Young 1974-93 Dennis W. Archer 1994-2001 Kwame M. Kilpatrick 2002-08 Ken Cockrel, Jr. 2008-09 David Bing 2009-

Events and Candidates (may be incomplete!)

  • 1889: Hazen S. Pingree, elected.
  • 1918: James Couzens, elected.
  • 1921: Daniel W. Smith, defeated; James Couzens, elected.
  • 1923 Apr 2: Frank E. Doremus, elected; James W. Inches, defeated.
  • 1924 Jun 10: Frank E. Doremus, resigned.
  • 1935 Nov 5: Frank Couzens, elected; Joseph Shemansky, defeated.
  • 1937: Clarence J. McLeod, defeated.
  • 1943 Nov 2: Edward J. Jeffries, Jr., elected; Frank FitzGerald, defeated.
  • 1945 Aug 7: Richard T. Frankensteen, nominated.
  • 1945 Nov 6: Edward J. Jeffries, Jr., elected; Richard T. Frankensteen, defeated.
  • 1947: Eugene I. Van Antwerp, elected.
  • 1949 Sep 13: Albert E. Cobo, nominated; George Edwards, nominated; Eugene I. Van Antwerp, defeated in primary; Richard T. Frankensteen, defeated in primary.
  • 1949 Nov 8: Albert E. Cobo, elected; George Edwards, defeated.
  • 1953: Frank Lovell, defeated.
  • 1957: Sarah Lovell, defeated.
  • 1957 Sep 12: Albert E. Cobo, died in office.
  • 1969: Mary V. Beck, defeated in primary.
  • 1969: Richard H. Austin, defeated.
  • 1973: Coleman A. Young, elected.
  • 1985: Helen Halyard, defeated in primary; Tom Barrow, defeated in primary.
  • 1989: Helen Halyard, defeated in primary.
  • 1989: John Conyers, Jr., defeated; Tom Barrow, defeated.
  • 1993: Sharon McPhail, nominated.
  • 1993: Sharon McPhail, defeated.
  • 2001: Nicholas Hood III, defeated in primary.
  • 2001 Nov 6: Kwame M. Kilpatrick, elected; Gil Hill, defeated.
  • 2005 Aug 2: Freman Hendrix, nominated; Kwame M. Kilpatrick, nominated; Sharon McPhail, defeated in primary; Hansen Clarke, defeated in primary; Sarella Johnson, defeated in primary; Clayton V. Johnson, defeated in primary; Angelo Scott Brown, defeated in primary; Veronica Brown, defeated in primary; Tania K. Walton, defeated in primary; Stanley Christmas, defeated in primary; Roy Godwin, defeated in primary; Clifford Brookins II, defeated in primary.
  • 2005 Nov 8: Kwame M. Kilpatrick, elected; Freman Hendrix, defeated.
  • 2008 Sep 18: Kwame M. Kilpatrick, resigned.
  • 2009 Feb 24: David Bing, nominated; Ken Cockrel, Jr., nominated; Freman Hendrix, defeated in primary; Warren C. Evans, defeated in primary; Coleman A. Young II, defeated in primary; Sharon McPhail, defeated in primary; Nicholas Hood III, defeated in primary; Jerroll Sanders, defeated in primary; D. Etta Wilcoxon, defeated in primary; Brenda K. Sanders, defeated in primary; Donald R. Bradley, defeated in primary; Duane Montgomery, defeated in primary; Stanley Christmas, defeated in primary; Joseph W. Holt, defeated in primary; Frances D. Culver, defeated in primary.
  • 2009 May 5: David Bing, elected; Ken Cockrel, Jr., defeated.
  • 2009 Aug 4: David Bing, nominated; Tom Barrow, nominated; Jerroll Sanders, defeated in primary; Duane Montgomery, defeated in primary; D'Artagnan M. Collier, defeated in primary; Bob Allman, defeated in primary.
  • 2009 Nov 3: David Bing, elected; Tom Barrow, defeated.

    Greenfield Township
    (annexed to Detroit by 1925)

    Supervisors of Greenfield Township, 1866 (may be incomplete!)

    Events and Candidates (may be incomplete!)

  • 1866 Apr 2: Peter Ternis (Dem), elected.

    Delray
    (annexed to city of Detroit by 1930)

    Village Presidents of Delray, 1897-1903 (may be incomplete!)
    Frederick J. Clippert 1897 George O. Fisher 1900-01 Joseph Kinnell 1901-03

    Events and Candidates (may be incomplete!)

  • 1900: George O. Fisher, elected.
  • 1901 Mar 11: Joseph Kinnell (Citizens), elected; George O. Fisher (People's), defeated.
  • 1903 Mar 9: W. J. Frasier (Union), elected; Joseph Kinnell (Citizens), defeated.

    Woodmere
    (annexed to city of Detroit 1905)

    Village Presidents of Woodmere, 1903 (may be incomplete!)

    Events and Candidates (may be incomplete!)

  • 1903 Mar 9: Fred A. Guilbert (Citizens), elected; Frank H. Beard (People's), defeated.

     

     


    		 
       
    "Enjoy the hospitable entertainment of a political graveyard."
    Henry L. Clinton, Apollo Hall, New York City, February 3, 1872    		 The Political Graveyard

    The Political Graveyard is a web site about U.S. political history and cemeteries. Founded in 1996, it is the Internet's most comprehensive free source for American political biography, listing 234,420 politicians, living and dead.
     
      The coverage of the site includes (1) the President, Vice President, members of Congress, elected state and territorial officeholders in all fifty states, the District of Columbia, and U.S. territories; and the chief elected official, typically the mayor, of qualifying municipalities; (2) candidates at election, including primaries, for any of the above; (3) all federal judges and all state appellate judges; (4) certain federal officials, including the federal cabinet, diplomatic chiefs of mission, consuls, U.S. district attorneys, collectors of customs and internal revenue, and members of major federal commissions; and (5) state and national political party officials, including delegates, alternate delegates, and other participants in national party nominating conventions.  
      The listings are incomplete; development of the database is a continually ongoing project.  
      Information on this page — and on all other pages of this site — is believed to be accurate, but is not guaranteed. Users are advised to check with other sources before relying on any information here.  
      The official URL for this page is: http://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/ofc/detroit.html .  
      Links to this or any other Political Graveyard page are welcome, but specific page addresses may sometimes change as the site develops.  
      If you are searching for a specific named individual, try the alphabetical index of politicians.  
      More information: FAQ; privacy policy; cemetery links.  
      If you find any error or omission in The Political Graveyard, or if you have information to share, please see the biographical checklist and submission guidelines.  
    Site information: The Political Graveyard is created and maintained by Lawrence Kestenbaum, who is solely responsible for its structure and content. — The mailing address is The Political Graveyard, P.O. Box 2563, Ann Arbor MI 48106. — This site is hosted by HDL. — The Political Graveyard opened on July 1, 1996; the last full revision was done on May 12, 2012.
    Copyright notice: Facts are not subject to copyright; see Feist v. Rural Telephone. Original material, programming, selection and arrangement are © 1996-2011 Lawrence Kestenbaum. This work is also licensed for free non-commercial re-use, with attribution, under a Creative Commons License.
    Creative Commons License Follow polgraveyard on Twitter Click to join political-graveyard [Amazon.com]