List of mayors of Lansing, Michigan facts for kids

List

Lansing, Michigan, was incorporated as a city on February 15, 1859.

• Hiram H. Smith, 1859
• John A. Kerr, 1860
• William H. Chapman, 1861–62
• Dr. Ira H. Bartholomew, 1863–65
• Dr. William H. Haze, 1866
• George W. Peck, 1867
• Cyrus Hewitt, 1868–69
• Dr. Solomon W. Wright, 1870
• John Robson, 1871 and 1881
• John S. Tooker, 1872–73 and 1876
• Daniel W. Buck, 1874–75 and 1886
• Orlando Mack Barnes, 1877
• Joseph E. Warner, 1878
• William Van Buren, 1879–80
• Orlando F. Barnes, 1882–83
• William Donovan, 1884–85
• Jacob F. Schultz, 1887
• John Crotty, 1888
• James M. Turner, 1889 and 1895
• Frank B. Johnson, 1890–91
• Arthur O. Bement, 1892–93
• Alroy A. Wilbur, 1894
• Russell C. Ostrander, 1896
• Charles J. Davis, 1897–99
• James F. Hammell, 1900–03
• Hugh Lyons, 1904–07
• John S. Bennett, 1908–11
• J. Gottlieb Reutter, 1912–17
• Jacob W. Ferle, 1918–19 and 1922
• Benjamin A. Kyes, 1920–21
• Silas F. Main, 1922–23
• Alfred H. Doughty, 1923–26
• Laird J. Troyer, 1927–30
• Peter F. Gray, 1931–32
• Max A. Templeton, 1933–41
• Arthur E. Stoppel, 1941
• Sam Street Hughes, 1941–42
• Ralph Crego, 1943–61
• Willard I. Bowerman, Jr., 1961–65
• Max E. Murninghan, 1965–69
• Gerald W. Graves, 1969–81
• Terry John McKane, 1981–92
• Jim Crawford, 1992–93
• David Hollister, 1993–2003
• Antonio Benavides, 2003–2006
• Virgil Bernero, 2006–2018
• Andy Schor, 2018-Present

Additional sources

• The State Journal newspaper; Lansing, Michigan; April 28, 1955; Centennial Issue; pages C-12 to C-18.
• Early Lansing History, book by James P. Edmonds, 1944, pages 26–27.
• Out of a Wilderness: an illustrated history of greater Lansing, book by Justin L. Kestenbaum, 1981, page 184.
• Lansing and its yesterdays; a compilation of a portion of the historical material published in the seventy-fifth edition of the Lansing State Journal, January 1, 1930; page 133.