HAMILTON’S MAYORS 1847-2021
Colin Campbell Ferrie: 1847 George Sylvester Tiffany: 1848
William L. Distin: 1849 John Fisher: 1850
John Rose Holden: 1851 Nehemiah Ford: 1852 William G. Kerr: 1853 James Cummings: 3 months in 1854
Charles Magill: 9 months in 1854- 1855
James Cummings: 1856 John Francis Moore: 1857 George Hamilton Mills: 1858 Henry McKinstry: 1859-1861 Robert McElroy: 1862- 1864 Charles Magill: 1865-1866 Benjamin Ernest Charlton: 1867
Hutchison Clark: 1868 James Edwin O’Reilly: 1869 George Murison: 1870 Daniel Black Chisholm: 1871-1872
Benjamin Ernest Charlton: 1873-1874
George Roach: 1875-1876 Francis Edwin Kilvert: 18771878
James Edwin O’Reilly: 18791881
Charles Magill: 1882-1883 John James Mason: 18841885
Alexander McKay: 18861887
William Doran: 1888-1889 David McLellan: 1890-1891 Peter Campbell Blaicher: 1892-1893 Alexander David Stewart: 1894-1895
George Elias Tuckett: 1896 Edward Alexander Colquhoun: 1897-1898 James Vernall Teetzel: 18991900
John Strathearne Hendrie: 1901-1902 Wellington Jeffers Morden: 1902-1903
Sanford Dennis Biggar: 1905-1906
Thomas Joseph Stewart: 1907-1908
John Inglis McLaren: 19091910
George Harmon Lees: 19111912
John Allan: 1913-1914
Chester Samuel Walters: 1915-1916
Charles Goodenough Booker: 1917-1920
George Charles Coppley: 1921-1922
Thomas William Jutten: 1923-1925
Freeman Ferrier Treleaven, Q.C.: 1926-1927 William Burton: 1928-1929 John Peebles: 1930-1933 Herbert Earl Wilton: 19341935
William Robert Morrison, K.C.: 1936-1943 Samuel Lawrence: 19441949
Lloyd D. Jackson: 1950-1962 Victor Copps: 1963-1976 Vince Agro: 1976-1977 (acting)
Jack McDonald: 1977-1980 William Powell: 1981-1982 Robert Morrow: 1982-2000 Robert E. Wade: 2000-2003 Larry Di Ianni: 2003-2006 Fred Eisenberger: 20062010
Bob Bratina: 2010-2014 Fred Eisenberger: 2014present
MAYORAL FIRSTS:
Longest-serving: Bob Morrow, 17 years, 1983-2000.
Shortest serving: James Cummings, three months, 1854, after election declared invalid. Returned in 1856.
First locally-born: George Tiffany, 1848, born in Ancaster.
First Italian-born: Larry Di Ianni, mayor from 20032006.
First Dutch-born: Fred Eisenberger, current mayor.
First Roman Catholic: Vic Copps, 1963-1976.
First to read the Riot Act: Sanford Biggar, (1905-1906), after HSR strike violence.
Acted as marshal in Louis Riel trial: Alexander Stewart, mayor in 1894-1895.
Youngest elected: John Holden, 30, in 1851.
Oldest elected: Bill Powell, 74, in 1981.