Revision 1 (Nov. 21, 2005, 11:49 p.m. by None)

The current Mayor of Ann Arbor is John Hieftje.

Past Mayors have been (shamelessly copied from the City's webpage):


The 1st Village President was John Allen (1834) Ann Arbor was incorporated as a city on April 4, 1851

MAYOR and TERM

George Sedgwick 1851-55 James Kingsley 1855-56 William S. Maynard 1856-58, 1865-66 Philip Bach 1858-59 Robert J. Barry 1859-61 John F. Miller 1861-62 Charles Spoor 1862-63 Ebenezer Wells 1863-65 Oliver M. Martin 1866-68 Christian Eberbach 1868-69 A.H. Partridge 1869-70 William D. Harriman 1870-71, 1883-85 Silas H. Douglass 1871-73 Hiram J. Beakes 1873-75 Edward D. Kinne 1875-77 Densmore Cramer 1877-78 Willard B. Smith 1878-80, 1887-88 John Kapp 1880-83, 1885-86 John Robison 1886-87 Samuel W. Beakes 1888-90 Charles H. Manly 1890-91 William G. Doty 1891-93 Bradley M. Thompson 1893-94 Cyrenus G. Darling 1894-95

In March, 1895, the term of Office of Mayor and President of Council was extended to two years.

Warren E. Walker 1895-97 Charles E. Hiscock 1897-99 Gottlob Luick 1899-1901 Royal S. Copeland 1901-03 Arthur Brown 1903-05 Francis M. Hamilton 1905-07 James C. Henderson 1907-09 William L. Walz 1909-13 Dr. R.G. MacKenzie 1913-15 Charles A. Sauer April-December, 1915*

  • Died December 6, 1915

Ernst M. Wurster as Acting Mayor 1915-17 Ernst M. Wurster 1917-21 George E. Lewis 1921-25 Robert A. Campbell 1925-27, 1933-37 Edward W. Staebler 1927-31 H. Wirt Newkirk 1931-33 Walter C. Sadler 1937-41 Leigh J. Young 1941-45 William E. Brown Jr. 1945-57 Samuel J. Eldersveld 1957-59 Cecil O. Creal 1959-65 Wendell E. Hulcher 1965-69 Robert J. Harris 1969-73 James E. Stephenson 1973-75 Albert H. Wheeler 1975-78 Louis D. Belcher 1978-85 Edward C. Pierce 1985-87 Gerald D. Jernigan 1987-91 Elizabeth S. Brater 1991-93 Ingrid B. Sheldon 1993-2000 John Hieftje 2000-present