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unusual facts about mayor of Detroit



Charles G. Oakman

He was also a member of the Wayne County Board of Supervisors 1941-1952; served as executive secretary to the mayor of Detroit in 1941 and 1942; city controller 1942-1945; served four terms as city councilman 1947-1952; secretary of the Detroit-Wayne Joint Building Authority 1948-1954 and general manager 1955-1973.

Ford Hunger March

The mayor of Detroit was Frank Murphy, a liberal who later became Governor of Michigan and an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, appointed by Franklin D. Roosevelt.

John Swainson

On June 23, 1963, Swainson accompanied the Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr., Detroit mayor Jerome Cavanagh, and approximately 125,000 people on a "Walk for Freedom" march down Detroit's Woodward Avenue.


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1879 Michigan Wolverines football team

Shortly after the crowd arrived from Ann Arbor, word was received that Zachariah Chandler, the former mayor of Detroit, U.S. Senator from Michigan, Secretary of the Interior, and U.S. Presidential candidate, had died.

Cassopolis, Michigan

Among his accomplishments, Archer went on to become an attorney, Michigan Supreme Court Justice, two-term mayor of Detroit, and President of the American Bar Association.

Copper Country

The Michigan State Geologist Douglass Houghton (later to become mayor of Detroit) reported on the copper deposits in 1841.

Copper mining in Michigan

The Michigan State Geologist Douglass Houghton (later to become mayor of Detroit) reported on the copper deposits in 1841, which quickly began a rush of prospectors.

Gil Hill

He ran unsuccessfully for Mayor of Detroit against Kwame Kilpatrick in the 2001 election.

Henry Ledyard

Henry Ledyard (March 5, 1812 – June 7, 1880) was the mayor of Detroit, Michigan and a state senator, briefly served as assistant secretary under Secretary of State Lewis Cass, and was the president of the Newport Hospital and the Redwood Library in Newport, Rhode Island.

John Harmon

John H. Harmon (1819–1888), mayor of Detroit and publisher of the Detroit Free Press

Kenneth Cockrell

:For the similarly named interim mayor of Detroit, see Kenneth Cockrel, Jr.

Pridgeon

John Pridgeon, Jr. (1852–1929), the head of a marine transport company and mayor of Detroit, Michigan

Woodbridge, Detroit

Kenneth Cockrel, Jr. - Detroit City Council member, former mayor of Detroit and City Council President