List of mayors of Charlottetown

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This is a list of mayors of Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island :

No.Years in officeNamePlace of birthNotesRef
11855-1857 Robert Hutchinson Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island First mayor of Charlottetown [1]
21857-1867 Thomas Heath Haviland, Sr. Cirencester, Glouchestershire, England Died while in office [2] [3]
31867-1872 Theophilus DesBrisay Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island [4]
41872-1875 Neil Rankin [5]
51875-1877Theophilus DesBrisaySecond non-subsequent election [4]
61877-1878 Jedediah Slason Carvell Newcastle, New Brunswick Refused renomination [6] [7] [8]
71878-1882 William Eddison Dawson Leeds, England [7]
81882-1884 David Robert Moore Hooper Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island [9]
91885-1886 Henry Beer Charlottetown, Prince Edward IslandDied while in office [2] [10]
101886-1893 Thomas Heath Haviland, Jr. Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island [2]
111893-1897William Eddison DawsonLeeds, EnglandSecond non-subsequent election [7]
121897-1904 James Warburton Woodbrook, Prince Edward Island [11]
131904-1906 Frederick F. Kelly Charlottetown, Prince Edward IslandTown's first Roman Catholic mayor [8]
141906-1908 James Paton Paisley, Scotland [8]
151908-1910 Benjamin C. Prowse Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island [12]
161910-1912 Benjamin Rogers Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island [13]
171912-1914 Charles Lyons [14]
181914-1916 R.H. Stearns
191916-1918 P.S. Brown [15]
201918-1920 George Dudley Wright Bedeque, Prince Edward Island [8] [16]
211920-1922 Daniel J. Riley [17]
221922-1924 Robert Harold Jenkins Mount Albion, Prince Edward Island [18]
231924-1926 John McKenna [19]
241926-1928 Leonard B. Miller
251928-1930 Ira J. Yeo [20]
261930-1932 Thomas William Lemuel Prowse Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island [6]
271932-1934 William S. Stewart Marshfield, Prince Edward Island [21]
281934-1936 Samuel Kennedy [22]
291936-1938 Percy W. Turner [23]
301938-1940 Ernest A. Foster Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island [24]
311940-1944 B. Roy Holman [25]
321944-1946 James E. Blanchard
331946-1951 B. Earle MacDonald Covehead, Prince Edward Island [26]
341951-1956 J. David Stewart Georgetown, Prince Edward Island [27]
351956-1958 Edwin C. Johnstone Long River, Prince Edward Island [28] [29]
361960-1965 A. Walthen Gaudet [30]
371965-1969 Walter J. Cox [31] [32]
381969-1972 Dorothy Corrigan Charlottetown, Price Edward IslandDefeated incumbent mayor Cox to become Charlottetown's first woman mayor [31] [32] [33]
391972-1975 Elmer J. MacRae [32]
401975-1978 Frank Zakem Saint-Paul-du-Buton, Quebec [34] [35] [32]
411978-1987 Frank J. Moran Newfoundland and Labrador [28] [36] [37] [32]
421987-1993 John E. Ready Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island [38] [39] [32]
431993-1998 Ian McDonald Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island [40] [41] [32]
441998-2003 George MacDonald [42] [36] [32]
452003-2018 Clifford J. Lee Charlottetown, Prince Edward IslandLongest-serving mayor [43] [32]
462018–present[ needs update ] Philip Brown [44] [45]

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