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This included a brief stint in 1806–1809 with a largely ceremonial mayor. Detroit's current strong mayor system dates from the city's 1824 charter. From 1824 to 1857, mayors were elected to terms of one year; from 1858 to 1953 the term was increased to two years, and after 1953 mayoral terms were four years.
The Kilpatrick and Beatty text-messaging scandal was a political sex scandal in the United States emerging from a whistleblower lawsuit involving former Detroit Police chief Gary Brown, Detroit mayor Kwame Kilpatrick and his former chief of staff and paramour Christine Beatty.
Kwame Malik Kilpatrick (born June 8, 1970) is an American former politician and convicted felon who served as the 72nd mayor of Detroit from 2002 to 2008. A member of the Democratic Party, he previously represented the 9th district in the Michigan House of Representatives from 1997 to 2002.
Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan speaks about a plan to increase City of Detroit employee wages to a minimum of $15 at the Detroit Public Safety Headquarters in Detroit on Feb. 9, 2022. Homelessness
Thanedar had more than $5.1 million in cash on hand as of March 31, the date of the last finance reports filed with the Federal Election Commission. He has largely self-financed his campaign ...
Duggan announced in November to a packed auditorium of city employees that he will not seek reelection as Detroit's mayor. Instead, the third-term executive hopes to succeed term-limited Gov ...
In August 2023, Sheffield set up an exploratory committee for a candidacy for mayor of Detroit in the 2025 election, hiring Nick Rathod as an advisor. [16] Following the decision of Mike Duggan , the incumbent mayor, to not seek another term, Sheffield announced her candidacy to succeed him in December 2024.
Kwame Kilpatrick was the youngest person to serve as mayor of Detroit, Michigan, seeming to embody the strength of the motor city. He would later face criminal charges and serve time in state prison.