List of mayors of Medicine Hat

This is a list of mayors of Medicine Hat, Alberta .

Mayors

Mayor		Term began	Term ended	Time in Office	Ref
1	William Bradley Marshall	1899	1900	3 Years	[1]
2	William Finlay	1900	1903	3 Years	[2]
3	Archibald Hawthorne	1903	1904	1 Year
4	Thomas Hutchinson	1904	1905	1 Year	[3]
5	Fred Forster	1905	1907	2 Years
6	William Cousins	1907	1909	2 Years	[4]
7	David Milne	1909	1912	3 Years	[5]
8	Nelson Spencer	1912	1914	2 Years	[6]
9	Mervyn Brown	1914	1915	1 Year (4 Years total)	[7]
(3)	Archibald Hawthorne	1915	1917	2 Years (3 Years total)	[8]
10	S. Cruikshank	1917	1918	1 Year	[9]
(9)	Mervyn Brown	1918	1921	3 Years (4 Years Total)	[10]
11	Walter Huckvale	1921	1926	5 Years	[11]
12	Isaac Bullivant	1926	1939	13 Years	[12]
13	Hector Lang	1939	1947	8 Years (9 Years total)	[13]
14	W. M. (Mac) Rae	1947	1949	2 Years	[14]
(13)	Hector Lang	1949	1950	1 Year (9 Years total)	[15]
15	Wilson Riley	1950	1952	2 Years total	[16]
16	Harry Veiner	1952	1966	14 Years (20 Years total)	[17]
17	Chuck Meagher	1966	1968	2 Years	[18]
(16)	Harry Veiner	1968	1974	6 Years (20 Years total)	[19]
18	Ted Grimm	1974	1977	3 Years (24 Years total)	[20]
19	Milt Reinhardt	1977	1980	3 Years	[21]
(18)	Ted Grimm	1980	2001	21 Years (24 Years total)	[22]
20	Garth Vallely	2001	2007	6 Years	[23]
21	Norm Boucher	2007	2013	6 Years	[24]
22	Ted Clugston	2013	2021	8 Years	[25]
23	Linnsie Clark	2021	2024/2025 [note 1]	4 Years, as of 2025 municipal elections.	[26] [27]

Notes

1. In March 2024, Clark was stripped of her mayoral powers under the Municipal Government Act , for violating the city's code of conduct by not treating the city manager with dignity and respect during a 2023 council meeting. The next municipal election is not until 2025, hence she will maintain her position but with reduced pay and restrictions on her ability to interact with the city administration. These restrictions were later found to be beyond what a Council acting properly should have done by Justice Nation and were removed in August of 2024, she was subsequently placed back to execute the full extent of her duties.

References

1. "Town Council". Calgary Herald . November 26, 1898.
2. Chambers, Ernest J., ed. (2005) [1909]. The Canadian Parliamentary Guide. Ottawa: Mortimer Company Ltd. p. 437. ISBN   9781414401416. ISSN   0315-6168. OCLC   266967058 . Retrieved August 9, 2020.
3. "Gas At Medicine Hat". Calgary Herald . June 20, 1904.
4. "The Provincial Nominations". Calgary Herald . December 3, 1907.
5. "Medicine Hat Nominations". Calgary Herald . December 9, 1908.
6. "Municipal candidates nominated yesterday in many Western towns". Calgary Herald . December 5, 1911.
7. "School Trustees Are To Hold Convention". Edmonton Journal . January 21, 1914.
8. "Election Returns Throughout West". Edmonton Bulletin . December 15, 1914.
9. "Women prodding Hat aldermen to take action". Calgary Herald . April 24, 1917.
10. Sally Sehn (January 11, 2020). "Heritage in the Hat: Brown's honour". Medicine Hat News .
11. "Walter Huckvale Is Medicine Hat Mayor". Calgary Herald . December 14, 1921.
12. "Leading Citizen: Mayor Isaac Bullivant". Calgary Herald . May 7, 1928.
13. "Two Cities Elect Mayors". Calgary Herald . December 13, 1938.
14. "Committees of Council Named". Lethbridge Herald . January 7, 1947.
15. "Medicine Hat Voters Elect Four Aldermen". Calgary Herald . December 13, 1949.
16. "Wilson Riley Elected Mayor of Medicine Hat". Calgary Herald . December 12, 1950.
17. Eddie Olynuk (August 15, 1959). "Backstage: Is The Hat's Veiner world champ?". Maclean's .
18. "Pharmacist in Medicine Hat ends Veiner's 14-year reign". Calgary Herald . October 20, 1966.
19. "Veiner returns as mayor". Edmonton Journal . October 17, 1968.
20. "Budget may hurt colleges". Red Deer Advocate . November 19, 1976.
21. "Nuclear fuel recovery plant planned for Medicine Hat". Edmonton Journal . November 24, 1977.
22. Jeff Sallot (January 21, 1981). "Tax inflames gas-brimmed Medicine Hat". The Globe and Mail .
23. John Cotter (October 16, 2001). "Alberta elects new city councils". Peace River Block News .
24. Geoffrey Scotton (October 16, 2007). "Former police chief new Medicine Hat mayor". Calgary Herald .
25. "Nenshi re-elected as Calgary mayor, Iveson chosen by Edmonton voters". Canadian Press . October 22, 2013.
26. Melissa Gilligan (October 19, 2021). "Medicine Hat elects first female mayor, 5 female councillors". CTV News Calgary.
27. "Medicine Hat, Alta., mayor stripped of powers, pay following August incident at council". CTV News Calgary. 2024-03-21. Retrieved 2024-05-07.