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Home > Special Collections > Municipal Reference Library > Links > Historical > Detroit Mayors Mayors of the City of Detroit   Unless otherwise noted, all mayors were elected.Mayors elected more than once are counted only once.Acting or appointed mayors are not included in the count. Asher Bates, William Richert and Joseph A. Martin served as acting mayors only and were not elected, as mayor, at any time. Mayor Years Served 1. John R. Williams 1824, 1825 2. Henry J. Hunt (died)                               1826     Jonathon Kearsley (replaced Hunt until Biddle elected) 1826 3. John Biddle 1827, 1828 4. Jonathon Kearsley 1829     John R. Williams 1830 5. Marshall Chapin 1831 6. Levi Cook 1832 7. C.C. Trowbridge 1834 8. Andrew Mack 1834     Levi Cook 1835, 1836 9. Henry Howard 1837 10. Augustus A. Porter (resigned March 14, 1839) 1838 - 1839      Asher Bates (acting) Until April 18, 1839 11. De Garmo Jones 1839 12. Zina Pitcher 1840, 1841 13. Douglas Houghton 1842      Zina Pitcher 1843      John R. Williams 1844, 1845, 1846 14. James A. Van Dyke 1847 15. Frederick Buhl 1848 16. Charles Howard 1849 17. John LaDue 1850 18. Zachariah Chandler 1851 19. John H. Harmon 1852, 1853 20. Oliver M. Hyde 1854 21. Henry Ledyard 1855 22. John Patton 1858, 1859 23. Christian H. Buhl 1860, 1861 24. William C. Duncan 1862, 1863 25. Kirkland C. Barker 1864, 1865 26. Merrill I. Mills 1866, 1867 27. William W. Wheaton 1868-1871 28. Hugh Moffat 1872 - 1875 29. Alexander Lewis 1876, 1877 30. George C. Langdon 1878, 1879 31. William G. Thompson 1880 - 1883 32. Stephen B. Grummond 1884, 1885 33. Marvin H. Chamberlain 1886, 1887 34. John Pridgeon, Jr. 1888, 1889 35. Hazen S. Pingree 1890 - March 22, 1897      William Richert (acting) (Served after Pingree was declared ineligible to hold office of mayor and governor simultaneously) 36. William C. Maybury April 5, 1897 - 1904 37. George P. Codd 1905, 1906 38. William B. Thompson 1907, 1908 39. Philip Breitmeyer 1909, 1910      William B. Thompson 1911, 1912 40. Oscar B. Marx 1913 - 1922 41. James Couzens (resigned December 5, 1922) 1919 - 1922      John C. Lodge (acting) December 5, 1922 - April 9, 1923 42. Frank E. Doremus (resigned June 10, 1924) April 9, 1923 - June 10, 1924      Joseph A. Martin (acting) June 10, 1924 - August 2, 1924      John C. Lodge (acting) August 2, 1924 - November 21, 1924 43. John W. Smith November 21, 1924 - January 9, 1928 44. John C. Lodge January 10, 1928 - January 14, 1930 45. Charles Bowles (recalled) January 14, 1930 - September 22, 1930 46. Frank Murphy September 23, 1930 - May 10, 1933      Frank Couzens (acting) May 10, 1933 - September 8, 1933      John W. Smith (acting) September 8, 1933 - January 2, 1934 47. Frank Couzens January 2, 1934 - January 3, 1938 48. Richard W. Reading January 4, 1938 - January 1, 1940 49. Edward J. Jeffries, Jr. January 2, 1940 - January 5, 1948 50. Eugene I. Van Antwerp January 6, 1948 - January 2, 1950 51. Albert E. Cobo (died) January 3, 1950 - September 12, 1957      Louis C. Miriani (acting) September 12, 1957 - January 7, 1958 52. Louis Miriani January 7, 1958 - January 2, 1962 53. Jerome P. Cavanagh January 2, 1962 - January 5, 1970 54. Roman S. Gribbs January 6, 1970 - January 1, 1974 55. Coleman A. Young January 1, 1974 - January 3, 1994 56. Dennis W. Archer January 3, 1994 - December 31, 2001 57. Kwame M. Kilpatrick January 1, 2002 -

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