List of mayors of Bundaberg explained

Post:	Mayor of Bundaberg
Insigniasize:	100px
Incumbent:	Jack Dempsey
Incumbentsince:	19 March 2016
Formation:	1880
Inaugural:	E. B. Jeune

This is a list of mayors of the Bundaberg Region (2008 - present) and City of Bundaberg in Queensland, Australia, and its predecessors.

Bundaberg was originally established as a Municipality on 22 April 1881, on land previously managed by the Barolin Divisional Board. With the passage of the Local Authorities Act 1902, Bundaberg became a Town on 31 March 1903, and on 22 November 1913, it was accorded City status.^[1]

Barolin Divisional Board

• E. B. Jeune (1880)

Municipality of Bundaberg

• Richard Ruddell (1881)
• Walter Adams (1882, 1883)
• Capt. William Edward Curtis (1884)
• Andrew M. Goodwin (1885)
• Michael Duffy (1886)
• Daniel McConville (1887)
• Michael Duffy (1888)
• John Rowland (1888, 1889)
• Andrew M. Goodwin (1890)
• James C. Walker (1891)
• John Rowland (1892)
• Capt. William Edward Curtis (1893)
• Daniel McConville (1894, 1895)
• John F. Boreham (1896)
• Patrick Duffy (1897)
• Andrew Dunne (1898)
• Robert Totten (1899)
• Frederick Colman (1900)
• Gustav Steindl (1901)
• Richard Ruddell (1902)

Town of Bundaberg

• William F. Marshall (1903)
• John Wyper (1904)
• Robert McMannie (1905)
• Michael Duffy (1906) ^[2]
• Albert E. Avenell (1907)
• Richard Ruddell (1908)
• John Redmond (1909)
• Peter Neilson (1910)
• Alexander Stevenson (1911)
• Lewis Holden Maynard (1912)
• William Dunn (1913)

City of Bundaberg

• William Dunn (1913)
• Rev. Father J. Mimnagh (1914)
• Elwyn Thomas Steptoe (1915, 1916)
• Richard Ruddell (1917)
• William Dunn (1918)
• Martin Dunn (1919)
• William Gavegan (1920–1923)
• Richard G. Curtis (1924) ^[3]
• William S. P. Gavegan (1925, 1926) (Nationalist)^[4]
• Bernard McLean (1927–1936) (Labor)
• Frederick Harold Buss (1936–1958)
• Clifford John Nielsen (1958–1984)
• Allan Stewart (1984–1988)
• Jeff Boreham (1988–1991)
• Nita Cunningham (1991–1998)
• Kay McDuff (1998–2008)

Bundaberg Region

• Lorraine Pyefinch (2008–2013)
• Mal Forman (2013 - 2016)
• Jack Dempsey (2016 - present)

References

• News: Bundaberg Daily News & Mail . 25 August 1925 . Past Mayors.

Notes and References

1. Queensland Government Gazette, Vol. CL, 22 November 1913, p.1422.
2. News: Queensland Mayors and Shire Chairmen. . . Brisbane, Qld. . 24 February 1906 . 1 October 2015 . 22 . National Library of Australia.
3. — available online
4. Book: Pugh. Theophilus Parsons. Pugh's Almanac for 1927. 1927. 13 June 2014.