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.

List of mayors of Ann Arbor, Michigan

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Table Section Text: This is a list of mayors of Ann Arbor, Michigan, beginning with Ann Arbor's incorporation as a city on April 4, 1851.

Mayor	Years	Political party

George Sedgwick	1851–1855	Whig

James Kingsley	1855–1856	Democrat

William S. Maynard	1856–1858

Philip Bach	1858–1859	Republican

Robert J. Barry	1859–1861	Republican

John F. Miller	1861–1862	Democrat

Charles Spoor	1862–1863

Ebenezer Wells	1863–1865	Democrat

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	Democrat

Silas H. Douglass	1871–1873

Hiram J. Beakes	1873–1875	Democrat

Edward D. Kinne	1875–1877	Republican

Densmore Cramer	1877–1878	Democrat

Willard B. Smith	1878–1880	Republican

John Kapp	1880–1883	Democrat

William D. Harriman	1883–1885	Democrat

John Kapp	1885–1886	Democrat

John J. Robison	1886–1887	Democrat

Willard B. Smith	1887–1888	Republican

Samuel W. Beakes	1888–1890	Democrat

Charles H. Manly	1890–1891	Democrat

William G. Doty	1891–1893	Democrat

Bradley M. Thompson	1893–1894	Democrat

Cyrenus G. Darling	1894–1895	Republican

Warren E. Walker	1895–1897	Republican

Charles E. Hiscock	1897–1899	Republican

Gottlob Luick	1899–1901	Democrat

Royal S. Copeland	1901–1903	Republican

Arthur Brown	1903–1905	Democrat

Francis M. Hamilton	1905–1907	Republican

James C. Henderson	1907–1909	Democrat

William L. Walz	1909–1913	Democrat

Robert G. MacKenzie	1913–1915	Republican

Charles A. Sauer (died in office)	1915	Republican

Ernst M. Wurster (acting mayor)	1915–1917	Democrat

Ernst M. Wurster	1917–1921	Democrat

George E. Lewis	1921–1925	Republican

Robert A. Campbell	1925–1927	Republican

Edward W. Staebler	1927–1931	Democrat

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	Democrat

Cecil O. Creal	1959–1965	Republican

Wendell E. Hulcher	1965–1969	Republican

Robert J. Harris	1969–1973	Democrat

James E. Stephenson	1973–1975	Republican

Albert H. Wheeler	1975–1978	Democrat

Louis D. Belcher	1978–1985	Republican

Edward C. Pierce	1985–1987	Democrat

Gerald D. Jernigan	1987–1991	Republican

Elizabeth S. Brater	1991–1993	Democrat

Ingrid B. Sheldon	1993–2000	Republican

John Hieftje	2000–2014	Democrat

Christopher Taylor	2014–present	Democrat

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Royal S. Copeland served as Republican mayor of Ann Arbor from 1901 to 1903.

final_sentence: Royal S. Copeland served as Republican mayor of Ann Arbor from 1901 to 1903.