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Mayors of Detroit (including Greenfield TWP), Michigan

Mayors of Detroit, 1806-2008 (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 Douglas 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 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 1948-50 Albert E. Cobo 1950-57 Louis Miriani 1957-62 Jerome P. Cavanagh 1962-70 Roman S. Gribbs 1970-74 Coleman A. Young 1974-93 Dennis W. Archer 1994-2001 Kwame M. Kilpatrick 2002-

Events and Candidates (may be incomplete!)

  • 1889: Hazen S. Pingree, elected.
  • 1918: James Couzens, elected.
  • 1921: James Couzens, elected; Daniel W. Smith, defeated.
  • 1923 Apr 2: Frank E. Doremus, elected.
  • 1924 Jun 10: Frank E. Doremus, resigned.
  • 1935 Nov 5: Frank Couzens, elected; Joseph Shemansky, defeated.
  • 1937: Clarence J. McLeod, defeated.
  • 1947: Eugene I. Van Antwerp, elected.
  • 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.
  • 1989: John Conyers, Jr., defeated.


    Greenfield Township
    (annexed to Detroit by 1925)

    Supervisors of Greenfield Township (may be incomplete!)

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