| Leslie O'Shaughnessy | |
| Office: | Mayor of Cornwall, Ontario |
| Predecessor: | Bob Kilger |
| Successor: | Bernadette Clement |
| Term Start: | December 1, 2014 |
| Term End: | December 1, 2018 |
| Birth Place: | Cornwall, Ontario, Canada |
Leslie O'Shaughnessy (April 13, 1954 - August 14, 2023)[1] was a Canadian politician, who was elected mayor of Cornwall, Ontario in the 2014 municipal election.[2]
Born in Cornwall, O'Shaughnessy previously served as reeve of the nearby township of Charlottenburg in the 1990s,[2] 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.[2]
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.[3] [4] In the 2014 election, he defeated incumbent mayor Bob Kilger.[2] [5] O'Shaughnessy ran for election again in 2018, but finished third behind the winner Bernadette Clement.[6]
He died on August 14 2023 of cancer.[7]