PERSON: Mike Duggan

Detroit, Michigan

Mayor

Michael E. "Mike" Duggan (born July 15, 1958) is an American businessman and politician. He is currently the Mayor for the City of Detroit, Michigan. His campaign has received national attention in part because he would be the first white mayor of the majority black city since Roman Gribbs' tenure in the early 1970s. He received 52 percent of the primary vote as a write-in candidate. He received 55% of the vote in the Mayoral election on November 4th, 2013.

Duggan completed an undergraduate degree at University of Michigan in 1980, and graduated from its law school in 1983. He also is a graduate of Detroit Catholic Central High School. A Democrat, Duggan was an appointed and elected official in Wayne County, Michigan beginning in 1986 as Wayne County's assistant corporation counsel. He was deputy County Executive from 1987 to 2001 under Edward H. McNamara and was elected prosecutor in 2000.

Beginning in 2004, Duggan was president and CEO of the Detroit Medical Center. He was in this position when the formerly nonprofit DMC was sold to publicly traded Vanguard Health Systems in 2010.

He resigned his position at the DMC in 2012 and moved from the suburb of Livonia to the city of Detroit, to run for the office of mayor. However, he failed to qualify for the ballot because he turned in his petition less than a year after establishing residency in the city; if he had waited two more weeks to file, he would have qualified. He mounted a write-in campaign, receiving enough votes in the August primary for his name to be placed on the ballot for the run-off election in November, along with second-place finisher Benny Napoleon.

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