The Ottawa County Commissioners were petitioned on June 2nd, 1890 to incorporate the Village of Marblehead. The petition was filed with the State of Ohio and Marblehead was incorporated January 2nd, 1891. The first Council meeting was held on April 14, 1891 in Temperance Hall on Alexander Pike. Present at that meeting were Mayor Winslow Griesser, Clerk George Eberwine, Legal Advisor Solomon Slauss and Councilmen John Burns, Dan Griesser, Tim Larkins, Henry Pokey, Jerry Tracey and William Schmidt.
A chronological history of our mayors
| Winslow Griesser | 4/27/1891 to 7/14/1893 |
| Daniel Griesser | 7/14/1893 to 4/07/1894 |
| H.M. Clemons | 4/07/1894 to 5/01/1897 |
| Adolph Newman | 5/01/1897 to 7/28/1899 |
| Richard Corty | 7/28/1899 to 7/04/1901 |
| George Eberwine | 4/04/1901 to 1/01/1910 |
| Theodore Pokey | 1/01/1910 to 1/01/1911 |
| Alex Clemons | 1/01/1911 to December 1917 |
| George Eberwine | 1917 to October 1935 |
| George Knoerle | October 1935 to 1/01/1936 |
| Anthony Turinsky | 1/01/1936 to 1940 |
| Louis Sauvey | 1940 to 1944 |
| John Juby | 1944 to 1948 |
| Millard Snider | 1948 to 1952 |
| Arthur Kasper | 1952 to 10/08/1956 |
| Robert Bird | 10/08/1956 to 1980 |
| John Dziak | 1980 to 1984 |
| Joseph Malfara | 1984 to 1988 |
| Kathleen Dziak | 1988 to 2000 |
| Steven Plottner | 2000 to 2002 |
| Joseph Ihnat | 2002 to 2004 |
| Jacqueline A. Bird | 2004 to Present |