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 Arbor

Mayor	Years	Political 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

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).
• Mayor of Ann Arbor on LocalWiki