List of mayors of Kingston, Ontario explained

This is a list of mayors of Kingston, Ontario.

In OfficeMayorBorn/Diedwidth=50% Notes
1838 Thomas Kirkpatrick(1805-1870) First mayor after Kingston becomes Town. First member of parliament for Frontenac.
1839(1797-1839)Died in office.
1839-1840James Sampson(1789-1861)
1841-1843 John Counter(1799-1862)
1844James Sampson(1789-1861)
1844-1845Thomas Weeks Robison(1810-1866)
1846Robert McLean(1806-?)Disappeared after being ousted from office due to amalgamation.
1846John Counter(1799-1862)First mayor after incorporation as city.
1847Thomas Kirkpatrick(1805-1870)
1848William Ford Jr.(1811-1893)
1849Francis Manning Hill(1809-1854)
1850John Counter(1799-1862)
1851Francis Manning Hill(1809-1854)
1852-53John Counter(1799-1862)
1854John Flanigan(1815-1888)
1855John Counter(1799-1862)
1855-1856Overton Smith Gildersleeve(1825-1864)
1857George Davidson(1810-1887)
1858John Flanigan(1799-1862)
1859-1860Orlando Sampson Strange(1826-1906)
1861-62Overton Smith Gildersleeve(1825-1864)
1863-1865John Creighton(1817-1885)Elected by acclamation 1864, 1865
1866-1868John Breden(1801-1893)
1869-1870William Robinson(1824-1912)
1871Archibald Livingston(1827-1890)
1872Samuel Trangott Drennan(1819-1882)
1873Henry Cunningham(1831-1904)
1874-1875Michael Sullivan(1838-1915)
1876Byron M. Britton(1833-1920)
1877John McKelvey(1837-1927)
1878John McIntyre(1843-1916)
1879Charles Fuller Gildersleeve(1833-1906)Also first president of the Kingston and Pembroke Railway c1871-c1900.
1880Robert John Carson(1846-1935)
1881Edward John Barker Pense(1848-1910)Also the owner of the newspaper, the Daily British Whig.
1882John Gaskin(1840-1908)
1883Charles Livingston Sr.(1825-1888)
1884Dr. James McCammon(1833-1884)
1885Edward Handley Smythe(1844-1903)
1886John Lanyon Whiting(1852-1922)
1887John Carson(1858-1912)
1888-1889James Duncan Thompson(1848-1910)
1890-1891William Melville Drennan(1853-1900)
1892Donald M. McIntyre(1855-1931)
1893Neil Currie Polson(1852-1940)
1894Dr. John Herald(?-1905)
1895Clark William Wright(1859-1916)
1896Robert Elliott(1861-?)
1897John S. Skinner(?-1897)
1898Charles Livingston Jr.(1857-1931)Son of Charles Livingston Sr.
1899Dr. Edward Ryan(1860-1938)
1900James Arnott Minnes(1868-1927)
1901Robert Edwin Kent(1861-?)
1902John Morgan Shaw(?-1925)
1903-1904Dr. John Howatt Bell(1867-1940)
1905Robert Newton Frederick McFarlane(?-1934)
1906-1907John McDonald Mowat(1873-1916)Died overseas during World War I.
1908Dr. Arthur Edward Ross(1870-1952)Represented Kingston as MLA and MP.
1909-1910Daniel Couper(1863-1925)
1911Christopher L. Graham
1912Franklin John Hoag(1868-1957)
1913Timothy John Rigney(1872-1967)
1914Robert Dundas Sutherland(1874-1935)
1915Abraham Shaw(1848-1922)
1916Dr. Alexander White Richardson(18??-1938)
1917-1918John McKane Hughes(?-1932)
1919Henry Wallace Newman(1875-1926)
1920-1921Hugh Collamer Nickle(1874-1946)
1922Samuel S. Corbet(1870-1959)
1923-1926Thomas Bryant Angrove(1869-1903)
1927Havelock Ford Price(1862-1930)
1928-1930William H. Craig(1880-1930)
1931-1932George Clark Wright(1885-1956)Son of Clark William Wright
1933Dr. Bruce Hopkins(1886-1971)
1934William P. Peters
1935John Clifford Reynolds(1897-?)
1936George Hanson(1862-1938)
1937Charles P. Dalton
1938-1943Dr. Harry A. Stewart(1892–1970)
1944-1945Cecil Leroy Boyd(1889–1954)
1946-1948Major James Stuart Crawford (1894–1948)In a meeting held September 10, 1943, Kingston's mayor, Major J. Stuart Crawford, was unanimously elected first president of the newly-established Hockey Hall of Fame.
1948-1952Clifford Austin Curtis(1899–1981)
1953-1956George Clark Wright(1885–1956)Died while completing last term in office.
1956Russell E. McCullough(1906–2000)
1957-1958Frank P. Boyce(1890–1985)
1959-1964William Thomas Mills(1924–2011)
1965-1968Robert A. Fray(1909–1993)
1969-1972Ernest Valorie Swain
1973-1976George Nicholas Speal(1932–2008)
1977-1979Ken Keyes(b.1930)Represented Kingston as MPP.
1980-1988John Gerretsen(b.1942)Represented Kingston as MPP.
1988-1993Helen Cooper(b.1946)Progressive Conservative candidate for the House of Commons in 1997. Chair of the Ontario Municipal Board from 1993 to 1996
1993-1994Ken Matthews(b.1928)
1994-2000Gary Bennett(b.date unknown)Ontario Progressive Conservative Party candidate in Kingston and the Islands for the 2018 and 2022 provincial elections
2000-2003Isabel Turner(1936–2021)Reeve of Kingston Township for 12 years until it was amalgamated into the City of Kingston in 2000
2003-2010Harvey Rosen(1949–2022)After he was mayor, unsuccessfully sought federal and provincial Liberal nominations.
2010-2014Mark Gerretsen(b.1975)Son of former mayor John Gerretsen, Represented Kingston as MP
2014-Bryan Paterson(b.1977)

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