List of mayors of Ann Arbor, Michigan

This is a list of mayors of Ann Arbor, Michigan, beginning with Ann Arbor's incorporation as a city on April 4, 1851.

+Mayors of Ann ArborImageMayorYearsPolitical party George Sedgwick 1851–1855 Whig James Kingsley 1855–1856 Democratic William S. Maynard 1856–1858 Philip Bach 1858–1859 Republican Robert J. Barry 1859–1861 Republican John F. Miller 1861–1862 Democratic Charles Spoor 1862–1863 Ebenezer Wells 1863–1865 Democratic William S. Maynard 1865–1866 Oliver M. Martin 1866–1868 Republican Christian Eberbach 1868–1869 Republican Alfred H. Partridge 1869–1870 William D. Harriman 1870–1871 Democratic Silas H. Douglass 1871–1873 Hiram J. Beakes 1873–1875 Democratic Edward D. Kinne 1875–1877 Republican Densmore Cramer 1877–1878 Democratic Willard B. Smith 1878–1880 Republican John Kapp 1880–1883 Democratic William D. Harriman 1883–1885 Democratic John Kapp 1885–1886 Democratic John J. Robison 1886–1887 Democratic Willard B. Smith 1887–1888 Republican Samuel W. Beakes 1888–1890 Democratic Charles H. Manly 1890–1891 Democratic William G. Doty 1891–1893 Democratic Bradley M. Thompson 1893–1894 Democratic Cyrenus G. Darling 1894–1895 Republican Warren E. Walker 1895–1897 Republican Charles E. Hiscock 1897–1899 Republican Gottlob Luick 1899–1901 Democratic Royal S. Copeland 1901–1903 Republican Arthur Brown 1903–1905 Democratic Francis M. Hamilton 1905–1907 Republican James C. Henderson 1907–1909 Democratic William L. Walz 1909–1913 Democratic Robert G. MacKenzie 1913–1915 Republican Charles A. Sauer (died in office) 1915 Republican Ernst M. Wurster (acting mayor) 1915–1917 Democratic Ernst M. Wurster 1917–1921 Democratic George E. Lewis 1921–1925 Republican Robert A. Campbell 1925–1927 Republican Edward W. Staebler 1927–1931 Democratic H. Wirt Newkirk 1931–1933 Republican Robert A. Campbell 1933–1937 Republican Walter C. Sadler 1937–1941 Republican Leigh J. Young 1941–1945 Republican William E. Brown Jr. 1945–1957 Republican Samuel J. Eldersveld 1957–1959 Democratic Cecil O. Creal 1959–1965 Republican Wendell E. Hulcher 1965–1969 Republican Robert J. Harris 1969–1973 Democratic James E. Stephenson 1973–1975 Republican Albert H. Wheeler 1975–1978 Democratic Louis D. Belcher 1978–1985 Republican Edward C. Pierce 1985–1987 Democratic Gerald D. Jernigan 1987–1991 Republican Elizabeth S. Brater 1991–1993 Democratic Ingrid B. Sheldon 1993–2000 Republican John Hieftje 2000–2014 Democratic Christopher Taylor 2014–present Democratic

See also List of City Council members of Ann Arbor, Michigan

References Ann Arbor mayors, Political Graveyard website Samuel W. Beakes, Past and Present of Washtenaw County (Washtenaw County, Mich.: S.J. Clarke Publishing Co., 1906), for political affiliations prior to 1906. Stephen D. Bingham, Early History of Michigan, with Biographies of State Officers, Members of Congress, Judges and Legislators (Lansing: Thorp and Godfrey, 1888). Jonathan Marwil, A History of Ann Arbor (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1990).