1. Michael Edward Duggan was born on July 15,1958 and is an American lawyer, businessman, and politician serving as the 75th mayor of Detroit, Michigan since 2014.
37 Facts About Mike Duggan
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An Independent, Mike Duggan previously served as the Wayne County Prosecutor from 2001 to 2004, and as the deputy county executive of Wayne County from 1987 to 2001.
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Mike Duggan received a bachelor's degree in 1980 and a Juris Doctor degree in 1983, both from the University of Michigan.
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Mike Duggan received national attention following his election in 2013, in part for being the first white mayor of the majority-black city since Roman Gribbs in the early 1970s, when Detroit's population still had a white majority.
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Mike Duggan was reelected by landslide margins in 2017 and 2021.
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Mike Duggan announced in November 2024 that he would not seek a fourth term as mayor.
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Mike Duggan spent his first six years at a home on Stansbury Street on the city's west side before moving to nearby Livonia in 1963.
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Mike Duggan received a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Michigan in 1980 and a Juris Doctor in 1983.
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Mike Duggan was deputy County Executive from 1987 to 2001 under Edward H McNamara, and was elected prosecutor in 2000.
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Mike Duggan served as the interim general manager of SMART, the region's public transit authority, from 1992 to 1996.
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Mike Duggan was in this position when the formerly nonprofit DMC was sold to publicly traded Vanguard Health Systems in 2010.
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In 2012, Mike Duggan resigned his position at the DMC and moved from the suburb of Livonia to the city of Detroit, intending to run for the office of mayor the following year.
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Mike Duggan ran with the campaign slogan, "Every neighborhood has a future", on a platform of financial turnaround, crime reduction, and economic development.
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Mike Duggan focused, during his first term, on improvements to emergency services response times and bus services.
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Mike Duggan saw a demolition program that was ambitious, but controversial.
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Mike Duggan had pledged to create a municipally-owned insurance company, dubbed "D Insurance".
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Mike Duggan advocated hard in 2015 for a bill that would create such a program, but it failed to pass in the Michigan Legislature.
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Mike Duggan drastically increased the number of parks that receive regular maintenance, which increased from 25 parks in 2013 to 275 by 2017 per reporting by the mayor's office.
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Towards the end of his first term, Mike Duggan established Detroit's first office of sustainability which focuses on creating green, sustainable spaces in Detroit and preparing against climate change affects.
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Mike Duggan worked to create Detroit at Work, an online portal launched in 2017 which connects job seekers with employers and with job training.
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Mike Duggan created the "Grow Detroit's Young Talent" program, a youth summer employment program that employed thousands of youth.
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Mike Duggan's administration has taken harder stances against graffiti in Detroit.
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Mike Duggan has collaborated with local artists for public art through initiatives.
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Mike Duggan encountered a controversy after, in December 2019, the Detroit Office of the Inspector found that three top municipal officials, including his chief of staff Alexis Wiley, had ordered public employees to erase emails having to do with to the nonprofit organization Make Your Date.
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Mike Duggan spent much of the last days of his second term managing the city's rollout of the Covid-19 vaccine.
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Mike Duggan addressed concerns about the vaccine from the majority black population of the city.
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Mike Duggan, when questioned about issues with the vaccine rollout, blamed the failures largely on the federal government.
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In February 2021, Mike Duggan went to Washington DC to meet with other state and local leaders and President Joe Biden to discuss the responses to the pandemic.
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In December 2021, Mike Duggan led efforts to demolish the abandoned former American Motors Headquarters building.
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Mike Duggan was re-elected for a third term in the 2021 Detroit mayoral election.
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On May 24,2022 Mike Duggan announced that the Incinerator would be demolished.
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Mike Duggan tasked with the demolition estimated that the demolition would produce a revenue of $1.3 million in salvaged metals and other materials for the Greater Detroit Resource Recovery Authority.
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In November 2022, Mike Duggan announced changes to key staff in his administration.
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One of the initiatives Mike Duggan is focusing on is affordable housing.
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In 2023, Mike Duggan proposed a land value tax, which would double the tax rate paid on bare land to pay for tax reductions on homes, businesses, and other property investments.
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For several years before the United States Census Bureau's estimates registered this population growth in the city, Mike Duggan had contended that they were miscalculating the city's population trends and that the city had been already regaining populace, going as far as to file lawsuits alleging that the bureau had undercounted the city's population.
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On June 29,2021, Mike Duggan announced his engagement to Dr Sonia Hassan.