List of mayors of Detroit
Non-Partisan Elections
A new city charter went into effect in 1918, which required that all city offices be non-partisan. The following mayors were elected in non-partisan elections with no party designations on the ballot, and served on a non-partisan basis with no official party affiliation: This provision has been repeated in the subsequent city charters of 1974, 1997, and 2012: So, it should be noted that the party affiliations shown below are based on information from each mayor's personal and/or political history and do not represent any official status.

List of mayors of Detroit

Section Title: Non-Partisan Elections
Table Section Text: A new city charter went into effect in 1918, which required that all city offices be non-partisan. The following mayors were elected in non-partisan elections with no party designations on the ballot, and served on a non-partisan basis with no official party affiliation: This provision has been repeated in the subsequent city charters of 1974, 1997, and 2012: So, it should be noted that the party affiliations shown below are based on information from each mayor's personal and/or political history and do not represent any official status.

#	Mayor	Term	Party	Notes

51	Mayor Couzens	James J. Couzens	1919 – 1922	Republican	Couzens began his career working for the New York Central Railroad, then became a clerk for coal dealer Alexander Y. Malcomson.

52	-	John C. Lodge	December 5, 1922 – April 9, 1923	Republican	John C. Lodge served for over 30 years on the Detroit City Council, many of them as its president.

53	-	Frank Ellsworth Doremus	April 9, 1923 – June 10, 1924	Democratic	Doremus was a newspaperman and lawyer. He served in the United States House of Representatives from 1911 to 1921, including a stint as chair of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee.

54	Joseph A. Martin	June 10, 1924 – August 2, 1924	Republican	Joseph A. Martin was Commissioner of Public Works for Detroit from 1920 to 1923.

55	-	John C. Lodge	August 2, 1924 – November 21, 1924	Republican	(see above)

56	-	John W. Smith	November 21, 1924 – January 9, 1928	Republican	In 1911, Smith was appointed Deputy State Labor Commissioner by Governor Chase S. Osborn.

57	-	John C. Lodge	January 10, 1928 – January 14, 1930	Republican	(see above)

58	-	Charles Bowles	January 14, 1930 – September 22, 1930	Republican	In 1925, Charles Boles rose from obscurity to run for the mayoral seat vacated by Frank Ellsworth Doremus, with heavy support from the Ku Klux Klan.

59	Mayor Murphy	Frank Murphy	September 23, 1930 – May 10, 1933	Democratic	Frank Murphy was a recorder's court judge in the 1920s; his one-man grand jury investigation into city corruption raised his profile in the public's eye.

60	Frank Couzens	May 10, 1933 – September 8, 1933	Republican	Frank Couzens was the son of James J. Couzens.

61	-	John W. Smith	September 8, 1933 – January 2, 1934	Republican	In 1911, Smith was appointed Deputy State Labor Commissioner by Governor Chase S. Osborn.

62	Frank Couzens	January 2, 1934 – January 3, 1938	Republican	Frank Couzens was the son of James J. Couzens.

63	-	Richard Reading	January 4, 1938 – January 1, 1940	Republican	Reading was appointed City Assessor in 1921, moved to City Controller in 1924, and was elected City Clerk in 1926. He stayed in the office of clerk until 1939, when he ran for mayor, ultimately defeating Patrick H.

64	Edward Jeffries.JPG	Edward Jeffries	January 2, 1940 – January 5, 1948	Republican	Edward Jeffries was the son of Recorder's Court Judge and civic servant Edward Jeffries Sr. The younger Jeffries ran for Detroit City Council in 1932, and served on that body for four terms, from 1932 to 1940, serving the last two as City Council president.

65	-	Eugene Van Antwerp	January 6, 1948 – January 2, 1950	Democratic	Eugene Van Antwerp was a civil engineer and a captain in the United States Army Corps of Engineers during World War I.

66	Albert Cobo	January 3, 1950 – September 12, 1957	Republican	Albert Cobo worked for Burroughs Corporation when, in 1933, the company "loaned" him to the city of Detroit to help with their financial crisis.

67	-	Louis Miriani	September 12, 1957 – January 2, 1962	Republican	Louis Miriani was elected to the Detroit City Council in 1947, and was council president from 1949 to 1957. After Albert Cobo died in office, Miriani served as acting mayor for the remainder of Cobo's term and was elected himself beginning in 1958.

68	-	Jerome Cavanagh	January 2, 1962 – January 5, 1970	Democratic	The 1961 mayoral race was the first campaign undertaken by the young Jerome Cavanagh. He was perceived as an easy opponent for incumbent Louis Miriani, but with the backing of the city's African-American community, Cavanaugh pulled off a stunning upset.

69	-	Roman Gribbs	January 6, 1970 – January 1, 1974	Democratic	Gribbs served as an assistant prosecutor from 1956 to 1964 and as sheriff of Wayne County in 1968 and 1969 before deciding to run for mayor.

70	Mayor Young	Coleman Young	January 1, 1974 – January 3, 1994	Democratic	Coleman Young was born in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, but moved to Detroit when he was five. During World War II, Young served as one of the Tuskeegee Airmen, and returned to Detroit at the end of the war.

71	Mayor Archer	Dennis Archer	January 3, 1994 – December 31, 2001	Democratic	Dennis Archer practiced law privately and as a law professor before being named to the Michigan Supreme Court in 1985 by Michigan governor James Blanchard.

72	Mayor Kilpatrick	Kwame Kilpatrick	January 1, 2002 – September 18, 2008	Democratic	Kwame Kilpatrick is the son of former county commissioner Bernard Kilpatrick and former Michigan legislator and United States congresswoman Carolyn Cheeks Kilpatrick.

73	Mayor Cockrel	Kenneth Cockrel, Jr.	September 18, 2008 – May 11, 2009	Democratic.	Ken Cockrel is the son of the late Kenneth Cockrel Sr., a civil rights activist and Detroit City Council member. The younger Cockrel also ran for city council, and was first elected in 1997.

74	Mayor Bing	Dave Bing	May 11, 2009 – December 31, 2013	Democratic	Dave Bing played 12 seasons in the National Basketball Association (9 with the Detroit Pistons) and was elected to the Basketball Hall of Fame.

75	Mayor-elect Duggan	Mike Duggan	January 1, 2014 – present	Democratic	Mike Duggan served as the deputy County Executive and prosecutor for Wayne County, and was president and CEO of the Detroit Medical Center from 2004-2012.

Sentence(s)

In 1930, Murphy was elected Mayor of Detroit as a member of the Democrats.

final_sentence: In 1930, Murphy was elected Mayor of Detroit as a member of the Democrats.