This is a list of mayors of Grand Rapids, Michigan.[1][2] The current mayor is Rosalynn Bliss, who was sworn into office on January 1, 2016.
| Mayor of the City of Grand Rapids | |
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since January 1, 2016 | |
| Formation | 1850 |
| First holder | Henry R. Williams |
| Website | https://www.grandrapidsmi.gov/Government/Elected-Officials/Mayor-Rosalynn-Bliss |
| No. | Portrait | Name | Term start | Term end | Party | Notes | |
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| Henry R. Williams | 1850 | 1851 | Whig | ||||
| Ralph W. Cole | 1851 | 1852 | Whig | ||||
| William H. Withey | 1852 | 1853 | Whig | ||||
| Thomas B. Church | 1853 | 1854 | Democratic | ||||
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Wilder D. Foster | 1854 | 1855 | Republican | |||
| Charles Shepard | 1855 | 1856 | Republican | ||||
| John M. Fox | 1856 | 1857 | Democratic | ||||
| William T. Powers | 1857 | 1858 | Democratic | ||||
| Gilbert M. McCray | 1858 | 1859 | Democratic | ||||
| George K. Johnson | 1859 | 1860 | Democratic | ||||
| Martin L. Sweet | 1860 | 1861 | Republican | ||||
| George H, White | 1861 | 1862 | Democratic | ||||
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Charles C. Comstock | 1863 | 1864 | Democratic | |||
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Wilder D. Foster | 1865 | 1866 | ||||
| John W. Champlin | 1867 | 1868 | Democratic | ||||
| Moses V. Aldrich | 1868 | 1870 | Republican | ||||
| Leonard H. Randall | 1871 | 1871 | Democratic | ||||
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Julius Houseman | 1872 | 1873 | Democratic | |||
| Peter R. L. Pierce | 1873 | 1874 | Republican | ||||
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Julius Houseman | 1874 | 1875 | Democratic | |||
| Peter R. L. Pierce | 1875 | 1876 | Republican | ||||
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William Montague Ferry | 1876 | 1877 | ||||
| George W. Thayer | 1877 | 1878 | Democratic | ||||
| Henry S. Smith | 1878 | 1879 | Greenback | ||||
| Francis Letellier | 1879 | 1880 | Republican | ||||
| Henry S. Smith | 1880 | 1881 | Greenback | ||||
| George G. Steketee | 1881 | 1882 | Republican | ||||
| Edmund B. Dikeman | 1882 | 1883 | |||||
| Crawford Angell | 1883 | 1884 | Democratic | ||||
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Charles E. Belknap | 1884 | 1885 | Republican | |||
| John L. Curtis | 1885 | 1886 | Greenback-Democrat | ||||
| Edmund B. Dikeman | 1886 | 1887 | Democratic | ||||
| Isaac M. Weston | 1888 | 1889 | Democratic | ||||
| John Killean | 1889 | 1891 | Democratic | ||||
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Edwin F. Uhl | 1891 | 1892 | Democratic | |||
| William J. Stuart | 1892 | 1893 | Republican | ||||
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Ernest B. Fisher | 1894 | 1895 | Republican | |||
| Charles D. Stebbins | 1895 | 1896 | Democratic | ||||
| Lathrop C. Stow | 1896 | 1897 | Republican | ||||
| George R. Perry | 1898 | 1901 | Democratic | ||||
| W. Millard Palmer | 1902 | 1903 | Republican | ||||
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Edwin F. Sweet | 1904 | 1905 | Democratic | |||
| George E. Ellis | 1905 | 1915 | Republican | ||||
| George P. Tilma | 1916 | 1917 | Republican | ||||
| Philo C. Fuller | 1917 | 1918 | |||||
| Christian Gallmeyer | 1918 | 1920 | |||||
| John McNabb | 1921 | 1922 | |||||
| William Oltman | 1922 | 1923 | |||||
| Julius Tisch | 1923 | 1924 | |||||
| Elvin Swarthout | 1924 | 1926 | |||||
| John D. Karel | 1930 | 1933 | |||||
| William Timmers | 1934 | 1935 | |||||
| Tunis Johnson | 1936 | 1937 | Democratic | ||||
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George W. Welsh | 1938 | 1949 | Republican | |||
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Stanley J. Davis | 1949 | 1950 | ||||
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Paul G. Goebel | 1950 | 1953 | ||||
| George Veldman | 1954 | 1955 | |||||
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Paul G. Goebel | 1956 | 1957 | ||||
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Stanley J. Davis | 1958 | 1963 | Democratic | |||
| C. H. Sonneveldt | 1964 | 1969 | |||||
| Robert Boelens | 1970 | 1971 | |||||
| Lyman S. Parks | 1971 | 1975 | First African American mayor | ||||
| Abe L. Drasin | 1976 | 1983 | |||||
| Gerald R. Helmholdt | 1984 | 1991 | |||||
| John H. Logie | 1992 | 2003 | |||||
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George Heartwell | 2004 | 2015 | Democrat | |||
| Rosalynn Bliss | 2016 | Present | Democratic |
References
edit- ^ "Mayors of Grand Rapids, Michigan". The Political Graveyard. Retrieved 10 March 2010.
- ^ Vande Bunte, Matt (2015-07-15). "57 men who preceded George Heartwell as Grand Rapids mayor". mlive. Retrieved 2021-01-30.