Delaware Ohio
List of Mayors
| 1816 ? | Jacob Drake (1st Mayor) |
| Walter VanHorn * | |
| 1824 | M. D. Pettibone |
| 1830 | Noah Spalding |
| Charles Neil....d 1882 * | |
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After 1849 Mayor was elected by City Council |
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| 1857 & 1858 | Charles Henry McElroy |
| 1859 | James A. Barnes |
| 1864?? | John Sills Jones....d 1903 * |
| 1867 to 1869 | VanDeman |
| 1869 to 1871 | Archibald Lybrand, Jr. |
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Delaware became a City, Mayor elected by the people |
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| 1872 to 1874 | John D. VanDeman (R) |
| 1874 to 1876 | William Oliver Semans (Temp) |
| 1876 to 1878 | J. A. Barnes (R) |
| 1878 to 1880 | Charles Henry McElroy (R) |
| 1880 to 1882 | Frederick Merrick Joy (R) |
| 1882 to 1885 | H. L Baker (D), two terms |
| 1886 to 1890 | H. E. Buck (D) * |
| 1888 | J. K. Newcomer (D) * |
| 1890 to 1894 | Harry S. Culver (R) two terms |
| 1894 to 1896 | H. L. Baker (D) third term |
| 1896 to 1898 | Wilfried Renaldo Carpenter (R) |
| 1898 to 1902 | John McClure (D), two terms |
| 1902 to 1906 | H. C. Clippinger (R), two terms |
| 1906 to 1908 | H. H. Beecher (R) |
| 1908 to 1912 | William E. Haas (D), two terms |
| 1912 to 1914 | Bert V. Leas (D) |
| 1914 to 1916 | John Louis Anderson(R) |
| 1916 to 1920 | Arthur James White (R) |
| 1920 to 1924 | Walter Samuel Pollock (R) |
| 1924 to 1928 | Howard Rezen Pumphrey (R) |
| 1928 to 1934 | Fred C. Johnson (R) |
| 1934, resigned | Veley Main (D) |
| 1934 to 1938 | Sidney Archie Rowland (D) |
| 1938 to 1940 | Hosea A. Spaulding (R) |
| 1940 to 1942 | Paul B. White (R) |
| 1942 to 1944 | Hosea A. Spaulding (R) |
| 1944 to 1948 | Patrick Joseph Foley (D) |
| 1948 to 1952 | Ansel Lockhart (R) |
| 1952 to 1954 | Murton F. Pinney (R) |
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Council Manager Form of Government Began |
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| 1954 to 1956 | Paul Bale White |
| 1956 to 1957 | Edward Flahive |
| 1958 to 1959 | Paul B. White |
| 1959 to 1961 | Henry Wolf |
| 1961 to 1963 | Paul B. White |
| 1963 to 1965 | Donald Mathews |
| 1965 to 1969 | Robert Ray Newhouse |
| 1969 to 1971 | Gilford E. Easterday |
| 1971 to 1973 | John Jeisel III |
| 1973 to 1977 | Gilford E. Easterday |
| 1978 to 1981 | Donald Wuertz |
| 1982 to 1983 | Donald Worly |
| 1984 to 1985 | Michael Shade |
| 1986 to 1989 | Donald Wuertz |
| 1990 to 1993 | Michael Shade |
| 1994 to 1995 | Dennis Davis |
| 1996 to 1999 | Juliann Secrest |
| 2000 to 2002 | Tommy W. Thompson |
| 2002 to 2009 | Wendell Wheeler |
| 2010 to | Gary Milner |