Decatur City Council following the death of Mayor Mike McElroy. She is the first female to be mayor of Decatur. Moore Wolfe, who had been appointed mayor pro tem in May 2015, became acting mayor after McElroy died on July 17, 2015. McElroy had been mayor since 2009 and had recently been re-elected to a second term as mayor in April 2015. Moore Wolfe was elected to a four-year term as mayor on April 4, 2017. Mayors Those who served as president of the town of Decatur were: Richard Oglesby (1836), Joseph Williams (1837), Henry Snyder (1838), Kirby Benedict (1839), Joseph King (1840), Thomas P. Rodgers (1841), David Crone (1846–47), J.H. Elliott (1848), Joseph Kauffman (1849), Joseph King (1850), William S. Crissey (1851), W.J. Stamper (1852), William Prather (1853–54), and Thomas H. Wingate (1854–55). During the winter of 1855–56, a special incorporation charter of Decatur as a city was obtained providing for an aldermanic form of government. John P. Post (1856) William A. Barnes (1857) James Shoaff (1858) Alexander T. Hill (1859) Sheridan Wait (1860) Edward O. Smith (1861) Thomas O. Smith (1862) Jasper J. Peddecord (1863–1864) Franklin Priest (1865–66; 1870, 1874, 1878) John K. Warren (1867) Isaac C. Pugh (1868) William L. Hammer (1869) E.M. Misner (1871) D.S. Shellabarger (1872) Martin Forstmeyer (1873) R.H. Merriweather (1875) William B. Chambers (1876–1877; 1883–1884; 1891–1892) Lysander L. Haworth (1879) Henry W. Waggoner (1880–1882) Michael F. Kanan (1885–1890) David C. Moffitt (1893–1894) D.H. Conklin (1895–1896) B.Z. Taylor (1897–1898) George A. Stadler (1899–1900) Charles F. Shilling (1901–1904) George L. Lehman (1905–1906), E.S. McDonald (1907–1908) Charles M. Borchers (1909–1911; 1919–1923) Dan Dinneen (1911–1919) Elmer R. Elder (1923–1927) Orpheus W. Smith (1927–1935) Harry E. Barber (1935) Charles E. Lee (1936–1943) James A. Hedrick (1943–51) Dr. Robert E. Willis (1951–1955) Clarence A. Sablotny (1955–59) Jack W. Loftus, acting (1959) Robert A. Grohne (1959–1963) Ellis B. Arnold (May 1, 1963, to April 30, 1967) James H. Rupp (1966–1977) Elmer W. Walton (1977–1983) Gary K. Anderson (1983–1992) Erik Brechnitz (1992–1995) Terry M. Howley (1995–2003) Paul Osborne (2003–2008) (resigned) Mike Carrigan (2008–2009) (appointed) Mike McElroy (2009–2015) Julie Moore Wolfe (2015–present) (appointed 2015, elected 2017) Police The Decatur police department has used public funds to support a controversial technique for 911 call analysis despite a consensus among experts that its application is scientifically baseless. After taking a two-day training course called “911 homicide: Is the caller the killer?” police officers present