List of Mayors of Detroit - First Incorporation

First Incorporation

Two mayors served under the 1806 charter.

# Name Term Party Notes
1 Solomon Sibley 1806 Democratic Solomon Sibley was the author of Detroit's first city charter in 1806, and became the city's first mayor under the charter. However, when he found the office powerless in the face of the entrenched governor and judges, he resigned. Sibley went on to serve as chair of Detroit's Board of Trustees during the time between mayoral control, and later as a delegate to the United States House of Representatives and as a justice of the Michigan Supreme Court.
2 Elijah Brush 1806 Elijah Brush was appointed to the mayor's chair after Sibley's resignation, but like Sibley found the position powerless and soon resigned himself. He owned the ribbon farm immediately adjacent to Detroit, along which Brush Street now runs. Brush served as a Lieutenant Colonel in the Territorial Militia, and was taken prisoner during the War of 1812; he died soon after returning to Detroit in 1814.

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