This is a list of mayors of Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island :
No. | Years in office | Name | Place of birth | Notes | Ref |
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1 | 1855-1857 | Robert Hutchinson | Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island | First mayor of Charlottetown | [1] |
2 | 1857-1867 | Thomas Heath Haviland, Sr. | Cirencester, Glouchestershire, England | Died while in office | [2] [3] |
3 | 1867-1872 | Theophilus DesBrisay | Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island | [4] | |
4 | 1872-1875 | Neil Rankin | [5] | ||
5 | 1875-1877 | Theophilus DesBrisay | Second non-subsequent election | [4] | |
6 | 1877-1878 | Jedediah Slason Carvell | Newcastle, New Brunswick | Refused renomination | [6] [7] [8] |
7 | 1878-1882 | William Eddison Dawson | Leeds, England | [7] | |
8 | 1882-1884 | David Robert Moore Hooper | Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island | [9] | |
9 | 1885-1886 | Henry Beer | Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island | Died while in office | [2] [10] |
10 | 1886-1893 | Thomas Heath Haviland, Jr. | Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island | [2] | |
11 | 1893-1897 | William Eddison Dawson | Leeds, England | Second non-subsequent election | [7] |
12 | 1897-1904 | James Warburton | Woodbrook, Prince Edward Island | [11] | |
13 | 1904-1906 | Frederick F. Kelly | Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island | Town's first Roman Catholic mayor | [8] |
14 | 1906-1908 | James Paton | Paisley, Scotland | [8] | |
15 | 1908-1910 | Benjamin C. Prowse | Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island | [12] | |
16 | 1910-1912 | Benjamin Rogers | Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island | [13] | |
17 | 1912-1914 | Charles Lyons | [14] | ||
18 | 1914-1916 | R.H. Stearns | |||
19 | 1916-1918 | P.S. Brown | [15] | ||
20 | 1918-1920 | George Dudley Wright | Bedeque, Prince Edward Island | [8] [16] | |
21 | 1920-1922 | Daniel J. Riley | [17] | ||
22 | 1922-1924 | Robert Harold Jenkins | Mount Albion, Prince Edward Island | [18] | |
23 | 1924-1926 | John McKenna | [19] | ||
24 | 1926-1928 | Leonard B. Miller | |||
25 | 1928-1930 | Ira J. Yeo | [20] | ||
26 | 1930-1932 | Thomas William Lemuel Prowse | Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island | [6] | |
27 | 1932-1934 | William S. Stewart | Marshfield, Prince Edward Island | [21] | |
28 | 1934-1936 | Samuel Kennedy | [22] | ||
29 | 1936-1938 | Percy W. Turner | [23] | ||
30 | 1938-1940 | Ernest A. Foster | Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island | [24] | |
31 | 1940-1944 | B. Roy Holman | [25] | ||
32 | 1944-1946 | James E. Blanchard | |||
33 | 1946-1951 | B. Earle MacDonald | Covehead, Prince Edward Island | [26] | |
34 | 1951-1956 | J. David Stewart | Georgetown, Prince Edward Island | [27] | |
35 | 1956-1958 | Edwin C. Johnstone | Long River, Prince Edward Island | [28] [29] | |
36 | 1960-1965 | A. Walthen Gaudet | [30] | ||
37 | 1965-1969 | Walter J. Cox | [31] [32] | ||
38 | 1969-1972 | Dorothy Corrigan | Charlottetown, Price Edward Island | Defeated incumbent mayor Cox to become Charlottetown's first woman mayor | [31] [32] [33] |
39 | 1972-1975 | Elmer J. MacRae | [32] | ||
40 | 1975-1978 | Frank Zakem | Saint-Paul-du-Buton, Quebec | [34] [35] [32] | |
41 | 1978-1987 | Frank J. Moran | Newfoundland and Labrador | [28] [36] [37] [32] | |
42 | 1987-1993 | John E. Ready | Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island | [38] [39] [32] | |
43 | 1993-1998 | Ian McDonald | Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island | [40] [41] [32] | |
44 | 1998-2003 | George MacDonald | [42] [36] [32] | ||
45 | 2003-2018 | Clifford J. Lee | Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island | Longest-serving mayor | [43] [32] |
46 | 2018–present[ needs update ] | Philip Brown | [44] [45] |
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