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Since 1918, all mayoral elections in Detroit have been held on a non-partisan basis, and mayors have officially served unaffiliated with any political party. Thus, the party affiliations given in the chart below for mayors elected after 1918 are not official and are based on the inferences of editors based on available historic information.
Coleman Alexander Young (May 24, 1918 – November 29, 1997) was an American politician who served as mayor of Detroit, Michigan from 1974 to 1994. Young was the first African-American mayor of Detroit and has been described as the "single most influential person in Detroit's modern history."
Pages in category "Mayors of Detroit" The following 67 pages are in this category, out of 67 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...
Detroit's first Black mayor took office 50 years ago in January. One off-the-cuff line in his inaugural speech has been debated ever since. Flashback: What Coleman Young really meant when he said ...
James Joseph Couzens [2] (August 26, 1872 – October 22, 1936) was an American businessman, politician and philanthropist. He served as mayor of Detroit (1919–1922) and U.S. Senator from Michigan (1922–1936).
Mayor Term Begins Term Ends Notes Clyde Ford [3] [2] 1927 1935 City's first mayor. Henry Ford's cousin. Helped facilitate the merger of Fordson into Dearborn in 1928. Defeated Fordson's mayor, Floyd Yinger, in the 1928 consolidation election. He refused re-election to a fourth term in 1935 to run for a seat on the city council. John Carey [4 ...
Kenneth Cockrel, Jr. is the son of Kenneth Cockrel Sr. (November 5, 1938 – April 25, 1989), a former Detroit city council member and attorney. He was a self-proclaimed Marxist-Leninist who died from a heart attack. [9]
He was chief counsel and later director of the Detroit Legal Aid Bureau. [1] He was elected to the Detroit City Council in 1947, and was council president from 1949 to 1957. [ 2 ] He became Mayor in 1957 after the death of Albert Cobo , [ 3 ] and was elected in his own right shortly afterward by a 6:1 margin over his opponent. [ 4 ]