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.
MayorYearsPolitical party
George Sedgwick1851–1855Whig
James Kingsley1855–1856Democrat
William S. Maynard1856–1858
Philip Bach1858–1859Republican
Robert J. Barry1859–1861Republican
John F. Miller1861–1862Democrat
Charles Spoor1862–1863
Ebenezer Wells1863–1865Democrat
William S. Maynard1865–1866
Oliver M. Martin1866–1868Republican
Christian Eberbach1868–1869Republican
Alfred H. Partridge1869–1870
William D. Harriman1870–1871Democrat
Silas H. Douglass1871–1873
Hiram J. Beakes1873–1875Democrat
Edward D. Kinne1875–1877Republican
Densmore Cramer1877–1878Democrat
Willard B. Smith1878–1880Republican
John Kapp1880–1883Democrat
William D. Harriman1883–1885Democrat
John Kapp1885–1886Democrat
John J. Robison1886–1887Democrat
Willard B. Smith1887–1888Republican
Samuel W. Beakes1888–1890Democrat
Charles H. Manly1890–1891Democrat
William G. Doty1891–1893Democrat
Bradley M. Thompson1893–1894Democrat
Cyrenus G. Darling1894–1895Republican
Warren E. Walker1895–1897Republican
Charles E. Hiscock1897–1899Republican
Gottlob Luick1899–1901Democrat
Royal S. Copeland1901–1903Republican
Arthur Brown1903–1905Democrat
Francis M. Hamilton1905–1907Republican
James C. Henderson1907–1909Democrat
William L. Walz1909–1913Democrat
Robert G. MacKenzie1913–1915Republican
Charles A. Sauer 1915Republican
Ernst M. Wurster 1915–1917Democrat
Ernst M. Wurster1917–1921Democrat
George E. Lewis1921–1925Republican
Robert A. Campbell1925–1927Republican
Edward W. Staebler1927–1931Democrat
H. Wirt Newkirk1931–1933Republican
Robert A. Campbell1933–1937Republican
Walter C. Sadler1937–1941Republican
Leigh J. Young1941–1945Republican
William E. Brown Jr.1945–1957Republican
Samuel J. Eldersveld1957–1959Democrat
Cecil O. Creal1959–1965Republican
Wendell E. Hulcher1965–1969Republican
Robert J. Harris1969–1973Democrat
James E. Stephenson1973–1975Republican
Albert H. Wheeler1975–1978Democrat
Louis D. Belcher1978–1985Republican
Edward C. Pierce1985–1987Democrat
Gerald D. Jernigan1987–1991Republican
Elizabeth S. Brater1991–1993Democrat
Ingrid B. Sheldon1993–2000Republican
John Hieftje2000–2014Democrat
Christopher Taylor2014–presentDemocrat