page_title: 1965 in Michigan
section_title: Mayors of major cities
hierarchical_section_title: 1965 in Michigan / Office holders / Mayors of major cities
caption_attribution_description: Frame from the promotional film "WJR: One of a Kind". Detroit mayor Jerome Cavanagh
context_page_description: Events from the year 1965 in Michigan.
  The Detroit Free Press and United Press International each selected lists of the top stories of 1965 in Michigan. Those stories included:
  The April 11 Palm Sunday tornado outbreak that struck across the Midwest causing 18 deaths in southern Michigan from Grand Rapids to Milan;
  The March 25 murder of Viola Liuzzo, a civil rights activist from Detroit, by the Ku Klux Klan in Alabama;
  The boom in 1965 automobile production, reaching a record high of 11,111,000 vehicles, including 9,331,000 passenger cars;
  The May 7 sinking of the SS Cedarville in the Straits of Mackinac after it crashed in the fog with another ship, resulting in the death of 10 crew members;
  The November 2 Detroit election in which Jerome Cavanagh was re-elected as mayor by a two-to-one margin and Nicholas Hood was elected to become the second African-American Councilman in Detroit history;
  The political struggle between Republican Gov. George W. Romney and a Michigan Legislature controlled by Democrats;
context_section_description: Mayor of Detroit: Jerome Cavanagh
  Mayor of Grand Rapids: C. H. Sonneveldt
  Mayor of Flint: Harry K. Cull
  Mayor of Saginaw: G. Stewart Francke/James W. Stenglein
  Mayor of Dearborn: Orville L. Hubbard
  Mayor of Lansing: Willard I. Bowerman, Jr. (Republican)/Max E. Murninghan
  Mayor of Ann Arbor: Cecil Creal (Republican) / Wendell Hulcher (Republican)
caption: Mayor Cavanagh
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