- List of mayors of Kingston, Ontario
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This a list of mayors of Kingston, Ontario.
In Office Mayor Born/Died Notes 1838 Thomas Kirkpatrick (1805-1870) First mayor after Kingston becomes Town. First member of parliament for Frontenac. 1839 Henry Cassaday (1797-1839) Died in Office. 1839-1840 James Sampson (1789-1861) 1841-1843 John Counter (1799-1862) 1844 James Sampson (1789-1861) 1844-1845 Thomas Weeks Robison (1810-1866) 1846 Robert McLean (1806-?) 1846 John Counter (1799-1862) First mayor after incorporation as city. 1847 Thomas Kirkpatrick (1805-1870) 1848 William Ford Jr. (1811-1893) 1849 Francis Manning Hill (1809-1854) 1850 John Counter (1799-1862) 1851 Francis Manning Hill (1809-1854) 1852-53 John Counter (1799-1862) 1854 John Flanigan (1815-1888) 1855 John Counter (1799-1862) 1855-1856 Overton Smith Gildersleeve (1825-1864) 1857 George Davidson (1810-1887) 1858 John Flanigan (1799-1862) 1859-1860 Orlando Sampson Strange (1826-1906) 1861-62 Overton Smith Gildersleeve (1825-1864) 1863-1865 John Creighton (1817-1885) Elected by acclamation 1864, 1865 1866-1868 John Breden (1801-1893) 1869-1870 William Robinson (1824-1912) 1871 Archibald Livingston (1827-1890) 1872 Samuel Trangott Drennan (1819-1882) 1873 Henry Cunningham (1831-1904) 1874-1875 Michael Sullivan (1838-1915) 1876 Byron M. Britton (1833-1920) 1877 John McKelvey (1837-1927) 1878 John McIntyre (1843-1916) 1879 Charles Fuller Gildersleeve (?-1906) Also first president of the Kingston and Pembroke Railway c1871-c1900 1880 Robert John Carson (1846-1935) 1881 Edward John Barker Pense (1848-1910) Also the owner of the newspaper, the Kingston Whig. 1882 John Gaskin (1840-1908) 1883 Charles Livingston Sr. (1825-1888) 1884 Dr. James McCammon (1833-1884) 1885 Edward Handley Smythe (1844-1903) 1886 John Lanyon Whiting (1852-1922) 1887 John Carson (1858-1912) 1888-1889 James Duncan Thompson (1848-1910) 1890-1891 William Melville Drennan (1853-1900) 1892 Donald M. McIntyre (1855-1931) 1893 Neil Currie Polson (1852-1940) 1894 Dr. John Herald (?-1905) 1895 Clark William Wright (1859-1956) 1896 Robert Elliott 1897 Dr. John S. Skinner (?-1897) 1898 Charles Livingston Jr. (1857-1931) Son of Charles Livingston Sr. 1899 Dr. Edward Ryan (1860-1938) 1900 James A. Minnes (1868-1927) 1901 Robert Edwin Kent (1861-?) 1902 John Morgan Shaw (?-1925) 1903-1904 Dr. John Howatt Bell (1867-1940) 1905 Robert Newton Frederick McFarlane (?-1934) 1906-1907 John McDonald Mowat (1873-1916) Death date estimated. Went missing in action during WWI. 1908 Dr. Arthur Edward Ross (1870-1952) Represented Kingston as MLA and MP. 1909-1910 Daniel Couper (1863-1925) 1911 Christopher L. Graham 1912 Franklin John Hoag 1913 Timothy John Rigney (1872-1967) 1914 Robert D. Sutherland (1871-1935) 1915 Abraham Shaw (1848-1922) 1916 Dr. Alexander White Richardson (18??-1938) 1917-1918 John McKane Hughes (?-1932) 1919 Henry Wallace Newman (1875-1926) 1920-1921 Hugh Collamer Nickle (1874-1946) 1922 Samuel S. Corbet (1870-1959) 1923-1926 Thomas Bryant Angrove (1869-1903) 1927 Havelock Ford Price (1862-1930) 1928-1930 William H. Craig (1880-1930) 1931-1932 George Clarke Wright (1885-1986) 1933 Dr. Bruce Hopkins (1886-1971) 1934 William P. Peters 1935 John Clifford Reynolds (1897-?) 1936 George Hanson (1862-1938) 1937 Charles P. Dalton 1938-1943 Dr. Harry A. Stewart ( - 1970) 1944-1945 Cecil Leroy Boyd (1889-1954) 1946-1948 James Stuart Crawford (1862-1947) Did not complete last term 1948-1952 Clifford Austin Curtis (?-1981) 1953-1956 George Clarke Wright (?-1986) Did not complete last term. 1956 Russell E. McCullough (1906-2000) 1957-1958 Frank P. Boyce (1890-1985) 1959-1964 William Thomas Mills (1924-2011) 1965-1968 Robert A. Fray (1909-2009) 1969-1972 Ernest Valorie Swain 1973-1976 George N. Speal (?-2008) 1977-1979 Ken Keyes (1930-?) 1980-1988 John Gerretsen (1942-Present) 1988-1993 Helen Cooper (1946-Present) 1993-1994 Ken Matthews (?-Presnet) 1994-2000 Gary H. Bennett (?-Present) 2000-2003 Isabel Turner (?-Present) 2003-2010 Harvey Rosen (?-Present) 2010-present Mark Gerretsen (1975-Present) Son of former mayor John Gerretsen References
- Machar, Agnes Maule. The Story of Old Kingston Musson: Toronto, 1908. pp290-291
- "The Mayors of Kingston since the City's Incorporation 150 Years Ago" Kingston Whig-Standard 28 January 1988
- City of Kingston Directories 1982-1994
- The Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online
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