List of mayors of Grand Rapids, Michigan

Mayor of the City of Grand Rapids
Seal of the City of Grand Rapids
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Incumbent Rosalynn Bliss since January 1, 2016
Formation	1850
First holder	Henry R. Williams
Website	https://www.grandrapidsmi.gov/Government/Elected-Officials/Mayor-Rosalynn-Bliss

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This is a list of mayors of Grand Rapids, Michigan.^[1][2] The current mayor is Rosalynn Bliss, who was sworn into office on January 1, 2016.

No.	Portrait	Name	Term start	Term end		Party	Notes
		Henry R. Williams	1850	1851		Whig
		Ralph W. Cole	1851	1852		Whig
		William H. Withey	1852	1853		Whig
		Thomas B. Church	1853	1854		Democratic
		Wilder D. Foster	1854	1855		Republican
		Charles Shepard	1855	1856		Republican
		John M. Fox	1856	1857		Democratic
		William T. Powers	1857	1858		Democratic
		Gilbert M. McCray	1858	1859		Democratic
		George K. Johnson	1859	1860		Democratic
		Martin L. Sweet	1860	1861		Republican
		George H, White	1861	1862		Democratic
		Charles C. Comstock	1863	1864		Democratic
		Wilder D. Foster	1865	1866
		John W. Champlin	1867	1868		Democratic
		Moses V. Aldrich	1868	1870		Republican
		Leonard H. Randall	1871	1871		Democratic
		Julius Houseman	1872	1873		Democratic
		Peter R. L. Pierce	1873	1874		Republican
		Julius Houseman	1874	1875		Democratic
		Peter R. L. Pierce	1875	1876		Republican
		William Montague Ferry	1876	1877
		George W. Thayer	1877	1878		Democratic
		Henry S. Smith	1878	1879		Greenback
		Francis Letellier	1879	1880		Republican
		Henry S. Smith	1880	1881		Greenback
		George G. Steketee	1881	1882		Republican
		Edmund B. Dikeman	1882	1883
		Crawford Angell	1883	1884		Democratic
		Charles E. Belknap	1884	1885		Republican
		John L. Curtis	1885	1886		Greenback-Democrat
		Edmund B. Dikeman	1886	1887		Democratic
		Isaac M. Weston	1888	1889		Democratic
		John Killean	1889	1891		Democratic
		Edwin F. Uhl	1891	1892		Democratic
		William J. Stuart	1892	1893		Republican
		Ernest B. Fisher	1894	1895		Republican
		Charles D. Stebbins	1895	1896		Democratic
		Lathrop C. Stow	1896	1897		Republican
		George R. Perry	1898	1901		Democratic
		W. Millard Palmer	1902	1903		Republican
		Edwin F. Sweet	1904	1905		Democratic
		George E. Ellis	1905	1915		Republican
		George P. Tilma	1916	1917		Republican
		Philo C. Fuller	1917	1918
		Christian Gallmeyer	1918	1920
		John McNabb	1921	1922
		William Oltman	1922	1923
		Julius Tisch	1923	1924
		Elvin Swarthout	1924	1926
		John D. Karel	1930	1933
		William Timmers	1934	1935
		Tunis Johnson	1936	1937		Democratic
		George W. Welsh	1938	1949		Republican
		Stanley J. Davis	1949	1950
		Paul G. Goebel	1950	1953
		George Veldman	1954	1955
		Paul G. Goebel	1956	1957
		Stanley J. Davis	1958	1963		Democratic
		C. H. Sonneveldt	1964	1969
		Robert Boelens	1970	1971
		Lyman S. Parks	1971	1975			First African American mayor
		Abe L. Drasin	1976	1983
		Gerald R. Helmholdt	1984	1991
		John H. Logie	1992	2003
		George Heartwell	2004	2015		Democrat
		Rosalynn Bliss	2016	Present		Democratic