The Political Graveyard: Mayors of Ypsilanti, Michigan

Mayors of Ypsilanti, Michigan

Mayors of Ypsilanti, 1858-2006 (may be incomplete!)
Chauncey Joslin 1858-59 Arden H. Ballard 1859-60 Benjamin Follett 1860-61 Parmenio Davis 1861-64 David Edwards 1864-65 Edgar Bogardus 1865-67 David Edwards 1867-68 Parmenio Davis 1868-70 Francis P. Bogardus 1871-73 Watson Snyder 1873-75 Lambert A. Barnes 1875-78 Thomas Ninde 1878-79 Lambert A. Barnes 1879-80 Edward P. Allen 1880-81 Henry R. Scovill 1881-84 Chester L. Yost 1884-86 Clark Cornwell 1886-88 Francis P. Bogardus 1888-89 Daniel Putnam 1889-91 Henry P. S. Glover 1891-93 William B. Seymour 1893-94 Harlow D. Wells 1895-96 Nolan B. Harding 1897-98 Don Lewis Davis 1898-99 Edward P. Allen 1899-1900 Henry R. Scovill 1900-01 O. E. Thompson 1901-02 Martin Dawson 1902-03 C. R. Huston 1903-04 George M. Gaudy 1904-05 John B. Van Fossen 1906-08 John P. Kirk 1908-10 Tracy L. Towner 1910-12 Frank Norton 1912-14 Lee N. Brown 1914-16 C. V. Brown 1916-20 Theodore E. Schaible 1921-22 Emery R. Beal 1922-23 Hugh E. Van de Walker 1924-28 Matthew Max 1929-34 Ray H. Burrell 1935-40 Ross K. Bower 1941-46 Daniel T. Quirk 1947-53 Carl J. Scheffler 1953-54 Rodney E. Hutchinson 1955-56 William E. Foy 1957-58 Rodney E. Hutchinson 1958-59 Donald B. Fulford 1960-61 John Calder 1961-62 Maurice Obermeyer 1962-63 John Calder 1963-64 Vincent H. Buck 1964-65 Jerry F. Gooding 1965-66 Susan H. Sayre 1966-67 John H. Burton 1967-68 Timothy Dyer 1968-70 Richard L. Boatwright 1970-72 George D. Goodman 1972-82 Peter J. Murdock 1982-89 Clyde K. King 1989-93 Michael Homel 1993-95 Cheryl C. Farmer 1995-2006

Events and Candidates (may be incomplete!)

1900 Apr 2: Henry R. Scovill (Dem), elected; John B. Van Fossen (Rep), defeated.

1902 Apr 7: Martin Dawson (Dem), elected; O. E. Thompson (Rep), defeated.

1908 Apr 6: John P. Kirk (Dem), elected; George D. Lockwood (Rep), defeated.

1910 Apr 4: Tracy L. Towner (Dem), elected.

1912 Apr 1: Frank Norton (Rep), elected.

1914 Apr 6: Lee N. Brown (Dem), elected.

1916 Apr 3: C. V. Brown (Rep), elected; N. A. Harvey (Dem), defeated.

1920 Apr 5: Theodore E. Schaible (Dem), elected; T. W. Paton (Rep), defeated.

1922 Apr 3: Emery R. Beal (Rep), elected unopposed.

1924 Apr 7: Hugh E. Van de Walker (Rep), elected unopposed.

1926 Apr 5: Hugh E. Van de Walker (Rep), elected; Marcia Hall (Dem), defeated.

1928 Mar 5: Matthew Max (Dem), nominated unopposed.

1928 Mar 5: Emery R. Beal (Rep), nominated; Ethyl Van Etten (Rep), defeated in primary.

1928 Apr 2: Matthew Max (Dem), elected; Emery R. Beal (Rep), defeated.

1930 Apr 7: Matthew Max (Dem & Rep), elected unopposed.

1934 Apr 2: Ray H. Burrell (Rep), elected; George L. Ennen (Dem), defeated.

1936 Apr 6: Ray H. Burrell, elected.

1938 Apr 4: Ray H. Burrell, elected.

1940 Feb 19: Lewis T. Smith (Dem), nominated unopposed.

1940 Feb 19: Ross K. Bower (Rep), nominated; Merle G. Renton (Rep), defeated in primary.

1940 Apr 1: Ross K. Bower (Rep), elected; Lewis T. Smith (Dem), defeated.

1942 Feb 16: Ross K. Bower (Rep), nominated unopposed.

1942 Apr 6: Ross K. Bower (Rep), elected unopposed.

1944 Apr 3: Ross K. Bower (Rep), elected unopposed.

1973 Feb 19: George D. Goodman (Dem), nominated unopposed.

1973 Feb 19: John P. Montonye (Rep), nominated unopposed.

1973 Apr 2: George D. Goodman (Dem), elected; John P. Montonye (Rep), defeated; Daniel Eller (American Independent), defeated.

1975 Apr 7: George D. Goodman (Dem), elected; Robert S. Dummitt (Rep), defeated; Eric Jackson (Human Rights), defeated.

1977 Feb 21: George D. Goodman (Dem), nominated; Harold R. Baize, Jr. (Dem), defeated in primary.

1977 Feb 21: J. Dale Hooker (Rep), nominated unopposed.

1977 Apr 4: George D. Goodman (Dem), elected; J. Dale Hooker (Rep), defeated.

1979 Apr 2: George D. Goodman (Dem), elected unopposed.

1981 Feb 16: George D. Goodman (Dem), nominated; Peter J. Murdock (Dem), defeated in primary.

1981 Apr 6: George D. Goodman (Dem), elected; Ruthann A. Wagner (American Independent), defeated.

1982: George D. Goodman, resigned.

1987 Apr 6: Peter J. Murdock (Dem), elected; Clyde K. King (Rep), defeated.

1989 Apr 3: Clyde K. King (Rep), elected; Peter J. Murdock (Dem), defeated.

1991 Apr 1: Clyde K. King (Rep), elected; V. Lois Wells (Dem), defeated.

1993 Apr 8: Michael Homel (Dem), elected; Charles S. Kettles (Rep), defeated; Faz Husain (Ind), defeated.

1995 Apr 3: Cheryl C. Farmer, elected; Michael Homel (Dem), defeated.

1998 Nov 3: Cheryl C. Farmer, elected unopposed.

2002 Nov 5: Cheryl C. Farmer, elected; Lois E. Richardson (Dem), defeated.

Village Presidents of Ypsilanti, 1832-58 (may be incomplete!)
John Gilbert 1832-34 Abel Godard 1834-36 Grove Spencer 1836-37 Henry Compton 1837-38 Abram Voorhees 1838-39 Levi J. Hull 1839-40 Walter B. Hewitt 1840-41 Abram Voorhees 1841-43 Abraham Craddock 1843-44 Thomas M. Town 1844-45 C. H. Van Cleve 1845-47 Arden H. Ballard 1847-50 George M. Osborn 1850-52 Delos Showerman 1852-56 Arden H. Ballard 1856-58

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

The Political Graveyard is a web site about U.S. political history and cemeteries. It is the Internet's most comprehensive source for American political biography, listing 180,022 politicians, living and dead.

The coverage of the site includes certain federal officials, state officeholders and candidates in all 50 states, state and national political party officials, federal and state judges, and mayors (including candidates at election for mayor) of qualifying cities.
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/ypsilanti.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 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.
Copyright notice. Facts are not subject to copyright; see Feist v. Rural Telephone. Original material, programming, selection and arrangement are © 1996-2008 Lawrence Kestenbaum. This work is also licensed for free non-commercial re-use, with attribution, under a Creative Commons License.

The Political Graveyard is created and maintained by Lawrence Kestenbaum, of Ann Arbor, Michigan, who is solely responsible for its structure and content. Web hosting is provided by Paul Haas, of Ypsilanti, Michigan. The site opened on July 1, 1996; the last full revision was done on June 16, 2008.