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References
- Ann Arbor mayors, Political Graveyard website
- Samuel W. Beakes, Past and Present of Washtenaw County (Washtenaw County, Mich.: S.J. Clarke Publishing Co., 1906), for political affiliations prior to 1906.
- Stephen D. Bingham, Early History of Michigan, with Biographies of State Officers, Members of Congress, Judges and Legislators (Lansing: Thorp and Godfrey, 1888).
- Jonathan Marwil, A History of Ann Arbor (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1990).
- Mayor of Ann Arbor on LocalWiki