The following dates and names come from the Detroit Almanac. Burton's History of Detroit gives different dates for some listings. Those are noted.
| Mayors of the Town of Detroit |
| 1806 |
Solomon Sibley (10/7/1769-4/4/1846) |
| 1806 |
Elijah Brush |
| Mayors of the City of Detroit |
| 1824-1825 |
John R. Williams (5/4/1782-10/20/1854) |
| 1826 |
Henry Jackson Hunt (? - 1826) |
| 1826 |
Jonathan Kearsley (8/20/1786-8/31/1859) |
| 1827-1828 |
John Biddle (?/?/1792-8/25/1859 |
| 1829 |
Jonathan Kearsley (8/20/1786-8/31/1859) |
| 1830 |
John R. Williams (5/4/1782-10/20/1854) |
| 1831 |
Marshall Chapin (2/27/1798-12/26/1838) |
| 1832 |
Levi Cook (12/16/1792-12/2/1866) |
| 1834 |
Charles Christopher Trowbridge |
| 1834 |
Andrew Mack (12/29/1800-4/3/1883) |
| 1835-1836 |
Levi Cook (12/16/1792-12/2/1866) |
| 1837 |
Henry Howard |
| 1838 (resigned) |
Augustus S. Porter (1798-1873) |
| 1838 |
Asher B. Bates (5/2/1810-6/1/1873) |
| 1839 |
De Garmo Jones (11/11/1787-11/14/1846) |
| 1840-1841 |
Zina Pitcher (4/14/1797-4/4/1872) |
| 1842 |
Douglass Houghton (9/21/1809-10/13/1845) |
| 1843 |
Zina Pitcher (4/14/1797-4/4/1872) |
| 1844-47 |
John R. Williams (5/4/1782-10/20/1854) |
| 1847 |
James A. VanDyke (1813-1855) |
| 1848 |
Frederick Buhl (1806-1864) |
| 1849-1850 (Burton lists 1848-1849) |
Charles Howard (8/7/1804-11/6/1883) |
| 1850-1851 |
John Ladue (1803-1854) |
| 1851-1852 |
Zachariah Chandler (12/10/1813-11/1/1879) |
| 1852-1853 |
John H. Harmon (6/21/1819-8/6/1888) |
| 1854-1855 |
Oliver Moulton Hyde (3/10/1804-6/28/1870) |
| 1855-56 |
Henry Ledyard (3/5/1812-6/7/1880) |
| 1856-1857 |
Oliver Moulton Hyde (3/10/1804-6/28/1870) |
| 1858-1859 |
John Patton (1822-?) |
| 1860-1861 (Burton says 1860-1862) |
Christian H. Buhl (1812-?) |
| 1862-1863 (Burton says 1864-1865) |
William C. Duncan (5/18/1820-5/20/1875) |
| 1866-1867 |
Merrill I. Mills (11/4/1819-9/14/1882) |
| 1868-1871 (Burton says 1867-1870) |
William W. Wheaton (1833-?) |
| 1872-1875 (Burton says 1871-1875) |
Hugh Moffat (1810-1884) |
| 1876-1877 |
Alexander Lewis (1822-?) |
| 1878-1879 (Burton says 1877-1879) |
George C. Langdon (1833-?) |
| 1880-1883 (Burton says 1880-1884) |
William G. Thompson (1842-?) |
| 1884-1885 |
Stephen Benedict Grummond (1834-?) |
| 1886-1887 (Burton says 1885-1886) |
M. H. Chamberlain (1842-?) |
| 1888-1889 (Burton says 1887) |
John Pridgeon, Jr. (1852-?) |
| 1890-1897 |
Hazen S. Pingree |
| 1897 |
William Rickert |
| 1897-1904 |
William Maybury |
| 1905-1906 |
George Codd |
| 1907-1908 |
William B. Thompson |
| 1909-1910 |
Philip Breitmeyer |
| 1911-1912 |
William B. Thompson |
| 1913-1918 |
Oscar Marx |
| 1919-1922 |
James Couzens |
| 1922-1923 |
John Cabot Lodge |
| 1923-1924 |
Frank Doremus |
| 1924 |
Joseph Martin |
| 1924 |
John Cabot Lodge |
| 1924-1928 (this conflicts with Lodge's dates below) |
John Smith |
| 1927-1929 (this conflicts with Smith's term above) |
John Cabot Lodge |
| 1930 |
Charles Bowles |
| 1930-1933 |
Frank Murphy |
| 1933-1938 |
Frank Couzens |
| 1938-1940 |
Richard Reading |
| 1940-1948 |
Edward Jeffries |
| 1948-1950 |
Eugene Van Antwerp |
| 1950-1957 |
Albert Cobo |
| 1957-1962 |
Louis Miriani |
| 1962-1970 |
Jerome Cavanagh |
| 1970-1974 |
Roman Gribbs |
| 1974-1993 |
Coleman Young |
| 1993-2001 |
Dennis Archer |
| 2002-2008 |
Kwame Kilpatrick |
| 2008-2009 |
Kenneth Cockrel, Jr. |
| 2009-present |
Dave Bing |
