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
	1851–1855	Whig
James Kingsley	1855–1856	Democratic
William S. Maynard	1856–1858
	1858–1859	Republican
	1859–1861	Republican
	1861–1862	Democratic
	1862–1863
	1863–1865	Democratic
William S. Maynard	1865–1866
	1866–1868	Republican
	1868–1869	Republican
	1869–1870
	1870–1871	Democratic
	1871–1873
	1873–1875	Democratic
	1875–1877	Republican
	1877–1878	Democratic
	1878–1880	Republican
	1880–1883	Democratic
	1883–1885	Democratic
	1885–1886	Democratic
	1886–1887	Democratic
	1887–1888	Republican
Samuel W. Beakes	1888–1890	Democratic
Charles H. Manly	1890–1891	Democratic
William G. Doty	1891–1893	Democratic
	1893–1894	Democratic
	1894–1895	Republican
	1895–1897	Republican
	1897–1899	Republican
	1899–1901	Democratic
Royal S. Copeland	1901–1903	Republican
	1903–1905	Democratic
	1905–1907	Republican
	1907–1909	Democratic
	1909–1913	Democratic
	1913–1915	Republican
(died in office)	1915	Republican
(acting mayor)	1915–1917	Democratic
	1917–1921	Democratic
	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