List of mayors of Quebec City

The Mayor of Quebec has been the highest elected official of the Quebec City government since the incorporation of the city in 1832.

List

The following is a list of the Mayors of Quebec City, Quebec, Canada.^[1]

Name		From	To	Duration	Political party
1	Elzéar Bédard	May 1, 1833	March 31, 1834	10 months and 30 days	N/A
2	René-Édouard Caron	March 31, 1834	April 9, 1836	2 years and 9 days	N/A
	René-Édouard Caron	August 15, 1840	February 9, 1846	5 years and 179 days	N/A
3	George O'Kill Stuart	February 9, 1846	February 11, 1850	4 years and 2 days	N/A
4	Narcisse-Fortunat Belleau	February 11, 1850	February 14, 1853	3 years and 3 days	N/A
5	Ulric-Joseph Tessier	February 14, 1853	February 13, 1854	364 days	N/A
6	Charles Joseph Alleyn	February 13, 1854	February 12, 1855	364 days	N/A
7	Joseph Morrin	February 12, 1855	January 22, 1856	323 days	N/A
8	Olivier Robitaille	January 22, 1856	January 19, 1857	363 days	N/A
9	Joseph Morrin (second term)	January 19, 1857	January 18, 1858	364 days	N/A
10	Sir Hector-Louis Langevin	January 19, 1858	January 22, 1861	3 years and 3 days	N/A
11	Thomas Pope	January 22, 1861	January 29, 1863	2 years and 7 days	N/A
12	Adolphe Guillet dit Tourangeau	July 3, 1863	January 12, 1866	2 years and 6 months and 9 days	N/A
13	Joseph-Édouard Cauchon	January 12, 1866	January 10, 1868	1 year and 11 months and 29 days	N/A
14	John Lemesurier	January 10, 1868	November 12, 1869	1 year and 10 months and 2 days	N/A
15	William Hossak	November 12, 1869	January 7, 1870	1 month and 25 days	N/A
16	Adolphe Guillet dit Tourangeau (second term)	January 10, 1870	May 2, 1870	3 months and 23 days	N/A
17	Pierre Garneau	May 2, 1870	May 4, 1874	4 years and 2 days	N/A
18	Owen Murphy	May 4, 1874	May 6, 1878	4 years and 2 days	N/A
19	Robert Chambers	May 4, 1878	May 3, 1880	1 year and 11 months and 30 days	N/A
20	Jean-Docile Brousseau	May 3, 1880	May 1, 1882	1 year and 11 months and 29 days	N/A
21	Sir François-Charles-Stanislas Langelier	May 1, 1882	March 1, 1890	7 years and 10 months	N/A
22	Jules-Joseph-Taschereau Frémont	March 1, 1890	April 2, 1894	4 years and 1 month and 1 day	N/A
23	Simon-Napoléon Parent	April 2nd, 1894	January 12th, 1906	11 years and 9 months and 10 days	N/A
24	Georges Tanguay	January 12th, 1906	March 1, 1906	1 month and 20 days	N/A
25	Sir Jean-Georges Garneau	March 1, 1906	March 1, 1910	4 years	N/A
26	Olivier-Napoléon Drouin	March 1, 1910	March 1, 1916	6 years	N/A
27	Henri-Edgar Lavigueur	March 1, 1916	February 20, 1920	3 years and 11 months and 19 days	N/A
28	Joseph-Octave Samson	March 1, 1920	March 1, 1926	6 years	N/A
29	Valmont Martin	March 1, 1926	December 7, 1927	1 year and 9 months and 6 days	N/A
30	Télesphore Simard	December 7, 1927	March 1, 1928	2 months and 25 days	N/A
31	Joseph-Oscar Auger	March 1, 1928	March 1, 1930	2 years	N/A
32	Henri-Edgar Lavigueur (second term)	February 26, 1930	January 26, 1934	3 years and 11 months	N/A
33	Joseph-Ernest Grégoire	March 1, 1934	March 1, 1938	4 years	N/A
34	Lucien-Hubert Borne	March 1, 1938	November 17, 1953	15 years and 8 months and 16 days	N/A
35	Wilfrid Hamel	December 15, 1953	December 1, 1965	11 years and 11 months and 17 days	N/A
36	Gilles Lamontagne	December 1, 1965	December 1, 1977	12 years	P.C.
37	Jean Pelletier	December 1, 1977	November 5, 1989	11 years and 11 months and 4 days	P.C.
38	Jean-Paul L'Allier	November 5, 1989	January 1, 2006	16 years, 1 month and 26 days	R.P. (until 2001) R.M.Q. (after 2001)
39	Andrée Boucher	November 6, 2005	August 24, 2007 [2]	1 year, 9 months and 18 days	Ind.
40	Jacques Joli-Coeur	August 24, 2007	December 8, 2007	3 months and 14 days	R.M.Q.
41	Régis Labeaume	December 8, 2007 [3]	incumbent	current	Ind.

Facts

• The first woman mayor of Quebec City was elected in 2005, 180 years after the creation of the city.
• Mayor Jean-Paul L'Allier has been the longest-serving mayor in the city's history, serving more than 16 years.
• The city was administered by a justice of the peace from 1836 to 1840.
• Party politics was introduced to city politics in the 1960s by Gilles Lamontagne's Progrès civique de Québec.

Legend

N/A : Non applicable

P.C. : Progrès civique de Québec

R.P. : Rassemblement populaire

Ind. : Independent

R.M.Q. : Renouveau municipal de Québec

Footnotes

1. ^ Maires de Québec depuis 1833
2. ^ Andrée Boucher died in office on August 24, 2007.
3. ^ Mairie de Québec : Labeaume assermenté, Le Soleil, December 8, 2007

External links

• Elzéar Bédard