The City of Ypsilanti's Mayor is elected every four years. Ypsilanti has a council/manager form of government with a weak mayor. This means that the Mayor basically functions as an at-large Councilmember and presides over Council meetings, in contrast to "strong mayor" cities, like Detroit, where the Mayor's office has significant control over day-to-day governance of the city.
Past Mayors of Ypsilanti
- Chauncey Joslin 1858-59
- Arden H. Ballard 1859-60
- Benjamin Follett 1860-61
- Parmenio Davis 1861-64
- David Edwards 1864-65
- Edgar Bogardus 1865-67
- David Edwards 1867-68
- Parmenio Davis 1868-70
- Francis P. Bogardus 1871-73
- Watson Snyder 1873-75
- Lambert A. Barnes 1875-78
- Thomas Ninde 1878-79
- Lambert A. Barnes 1879-80
- Edward P. Allen 1880-81
- Henry R. Scoville 1881-84
- Chester L. Yost 1884-86
- Clark Cornwell 1886-88
- Francis P. Bogardus 1888-89
- Daniel Putnam 1889-91
- Henry P. S. Glover 1891-93
- William B. Seymour 1893-94
- Harlow D. Wells 1895-96
- Nolan B. Harding 1897-98
- Don Lewis Davis 1898-99
- Edward P. Allen 1899-1900
- Henry R. Scoville 1900-01
- O. E. Thompson 1901-02
- Martin Dawson 1902-03
- C. R. Huston 1903-04
- George Gaudy 1904-05
- John Van Fossen 1906-08
- John P. Kirk 1908-10
- Tracy Towner 1910-12
- Frank Norton 1912-14
- Lee N. Brown 1914-16
- C. V. Brown 1916-20
- Theodore Schaible 1921-22
- Emery R. Beal 1922-23
- Hugh E. Vandewalker 1924-28
- Matthew Max 1929-34
- Ray H. Burrell 1935-40
- Ross K. Bower 1941-46
- Daniel T. Quirk 1947-52
- Carl J. Scheffler 1952-54
- Rodney E. Hutchinson 1955-56
- William E. Foy 1957-58
- Rodney E. Hutchinson 1958-59
- Donald B. Fulford 1960-61
- John Calder 1961-62
- Maurice Obermeyer 1962-63
- John Calder 1963-64
- Vincent H. Buck 1964-65
- Jerry F. Gooding 1965-66
- Susan H. Sayre 1966-67
- John H. Burton 1967-68
- Timothy Dyer 1968-70
- Richard L. Boatwright 1970-72
- George D. Goodman 1972-76
- Peter J. Murdock 1982-89
- Clyde K. King 1989-93
- Michael Homel 1993-95
- Cheryl C. Farmer 1995-2006
- Paul Schreiber 2006-2014
- Amanda Edmonds 2014-2018
- Beth Bashert 2018-Present
More information
- Mayors of Ypsilanti, MI, Political Graveyard
- Ypsilanti Historical Society, and Ypsilanti Historical Archives. The Mayors of Ypsilanti, 1858-1976. Ypsilanti, Mich.: Archives and the Society, 1972. OCLC 2743461.
