William C. Duncan

William C. Duncan


Mayor of Detroit
In office 1862–1863
Preceded by	Christian H. Buhl
Succeeded by	Kirkland C. Barker
Personal details
Born	May 18, 1820 Lyons, New York
Died	December 19, 1877 (1877-12-20) (aged 57) Detroit, Michigan

William Chamberlain Duncan (May 18, 1820 – December 19, 1877) was a brewer, politician, and mayor of Detroit, Michigan.

Life and politics

Duncan was born in Lyons, New York on May 18, 1820.^[1] The family moved to Rochester, New York in 1825, and in 1841 Duncan began working as a steward^[2] on the passenger steamers crossing the Great Lakes. In 1846, he changed employers and began working on a steamer traveling through Lake Superior.^[2] In 1849, Duncan moved to Detroit and became a brewer.^[1]

Duncan was a Democrat,^[2] and in 1852, he was elected an alderman, serving five years. He was first council president, after a revision of the city charter created that position.^[2] He was mayor of Detroit for two years, 1862 and 1863, and in the fall of 1863 was elected a state senator.^[1] He began in the banking business in 1865, but soon gave up the trade due to impaired health^[2] and to take care of the property he had accumulated and to visit Europe.^[1]

In 1873, however, Duncan was chosen as a member of the newly created Board of Estimates.^[2] In the same year, the city Democratic Party asked him to again be their candidate for mayor, but Duncan declined due to his ill-health.^[2]

William C. Duncan died on December 19, 1877; he had no children.^[1]

References

1 2 3 4 5 Silas Farmer (1889), THE HISTORY OF DETROIT AND MICHIGAN, p. 1044
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Charles Richard Tuttle (1874), General history of the state of Michigan: with biographical sketches, portrait engravings, and numerous illustrations. A complete history of the Peninsular state from its earliest settlement to the present time, R. D. S. Tyler & co., pp. 714–716

Political offices
Preceded by Christian H. Buhl	Mayor of Detroit 1862–1863	Succeeded by Kirkland C. Barker

Mayors of Detroit (since 1824)

Williams Hunt Kearsley Biddle Kearsley Williams Chapin Cook Chapin Trowbridge Mack Cook H. Howard Porter Bates Jones Pitcher Houghton Pitcher Williams Van Dyke F. Buhl C. Howard Ladue Chandler Harmon Hyde Ledyard Hyde Patton C. Buhl Duncan Barker Mills Wheaton Moffat Lewis Langdon W. G. Thompson Grummond Chamberlain Pridgeon Pingree Richert Maybury Codd W. B. Thompson Breitmeyer W. B. Thompson Marx J. Couzens Lodge Doremus Martin Lodge Smith Lodge Bowles Murphy F. Couzens Smith F. Couzens Reading Jeffries Van Antwerp Cobo Miriani Cavanagh Gribbs Young Archer Kilpatrick Cockrel Bing Duggan

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