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Mayor Joe Wright announced his resignation from the office as of January 14, 2011 ; CIty Councilman John Jennings was named as Interim Mayor, until the appointment of Terry Dilk on January 25, 2011 by the Marion County Republican Committee to fill out Wright's term through the 2011 elections.

Dilk was defeated in the November 8, 2011 election by former City fire chief Dennis Buckley, who became the first Mayor to have been the child of a former candidate for the same office ( his father, Robert Buckley, was defeated in the 1967 election ).