List of mayors of Grand Rapids, Michigan

Mayor of the City of Grand Rapids
Mayor of the City of Grand Rapids
	Seal of the City of Grand Rapids
	Flag of the City of Grand Rapids
	Incumbent; David LaGrand; since January 1, 2025
Formation	1850
First holder	Henry R. Williams
Website	Official website

This is a list of mayors of Grand Rapids, Michigan.^[1]^[2] The current mayor is David LaGrand, who was sworn into office on January 1, 2025.

List of mayors

No.	Name	Term start	Term end	Party	Notes
1	Henry R. Williams	1850	1851	Whig
2	Ralph W. Cole	1851	1852	Whig
3	William H. Withey	1852	1853	Whig
4	Thomas B. Church	1853	1854	Democratic
5	Wilder D. Foster	1854	1855	Republican
6	Charles Shepard	1855	1856	Republican
7	John M. Fox	1856	1857	Democratic
8	William T. Powers	1857	1858	Democratic
9	Gilbert M. McCray	1858	1859	Democratic
10	George K. Johnson	1859	1860	Democratic
11	Martin L. Sweet	1860	1861	Republican
12	George H. White	1861	1862	Democratic
13	Charles C. Comstock	1863	1864	Democratic
14	Wilder D. Foster	1865	1866
15	John W. Champlin	1867	1868	Democratic
16	Moses V. Aldrich	1868	1870	Republican
17	Leonard H. Randall	1871	1871	Democratic
18	Julius Houseman	1872	1873	Democratic
19	Peter R. L. Pierce	1873	1874	Republican
20	Julius Houseman	1874	1875	Democratic
21	Peter R. L. Pierce	1875	1876	Republican
22	William Montague Ferry	1876	1877
23	George W. Thayer	1877	1878	Democratic
24	Henry S. Smith	1878	1879	Greenback
25	Francis Letellier	1879	1880	Republican
26	Henry S. Smith	1880	1881	Greenback
27	George G. Steketee	1881	1882	Republican
28	Edmund B. Dikeman	1882	1883
29	Crawford Angell	1883	1884	Democratic
30	Charles E. Belknap	1884	1885	Republican
31	John L. Curtis	1885	1886	Greenback-Democrat
32	Edmund B. Dikeman	1886	1887	Democratic
33	Isaac M. Weston	1888	1889	Democratic
34	John Killean	1889	1891	Democratic
35	Edwin F. Uhl	1891	1892	Democratic
36	William J. Stuart	1892	1893	Republican
37	Ernest B. Fisher	1894	1895	Republican
38	Charles D. Stebbins	1895	1896	Democratic
39	Lathrop C. Stow	1896	1897	Republican
40	George R. Perry	1898	1901	Democratic
41	W. Millard Palmer	1902	1903	Republican
42	Edwin F. Sweet	1904	1905	Democratic
43	George E. Ellis	1905	1915	Republican
44	George P. Tilma	1916	1917	Republican
45	Philo C. Fuller	1917	1918
46	Christian Gallmeyer	1918	1920
47	John McNabb	1921	1922
48	William Oltman	1922	1923
49	Julius Tisch	1923	1924
50	Elvin Swarthout	1924	1926
51	John D. Karel	1930	1933
52	William Timmers	1934	1935
53	Tunis Johnson	1936	1937	Democratic
54	George W. Welsh	1938	1949	Republican
55	Stanley J. Davis (interim)	1949	1950
56	Paul G. Goebel	1950	1953
57	George Veldman	1954	1955
58	Paul G. Goebel	1956	1957
59	Stanley J. Davis	1958	1963	Democratic
60	C. H. Sonneveldt	1964	1969
61	Robert Boelens	1970	1971
62	Lyman S. Parks	1971	1975		First African American mayor
63	Abe L. Drasin	1976	1983		First Jewish mayor
64	Gerald R. Helmholdt	1984	1991
65	John H. Logie	1992	2003
66	George Heartwell	2004	2015	Democrat
67	Rosalynn Bliss	2016	2024	Democratic	First woman mayor
68	David LaGrand	2025	Present	Democratic