Leslie O'Shaughnessy | |
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Mayor of Cornwall, Ontario | |
In office December 1, 2014 –December 1, 2018 | |
Preceded by | Bob Kilger |
Succeeded by | Bernadette Clement |
Personal details | |
Born | Cornwall,Ontario,Canada |
Leslie O'Shaughnessy was a Canadian politician,who was elected mayor of Cornwall,Ontario in the 2014 municipal election. [1]
Born in Cornwall,O'Shaughnessy previously served as reeve of the nearby township of Charlottenburg in the 1990s, [1] and ran as a Progressive Conservative Party of Canada candidate for Stormont—Dundas in the 1997 federal election. He later moved back to Cornwall,and was elected to Cornwall City Council as a city councillor in 2003. He ran for mayor in the 2006 municipal election,but was not elected. [1]
He ran again in the 2010 municipal election and was re-elected as a city councillor,but resigned his seat in 2012 citing concerns about the council's commitment to accountability and transparency. [2] [3] In the 2014 election,he defeated incumbent mayor Bob Kilger. [1] [4] O'Shaughnessy ran for election again in 2018,but finished third behind the winner Bernadette Clement. [5]
He died on August 14 2023 of cancer. [6]
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