List of Toronto mayors

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This is a list of mayors of Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

From 1834-1857, and again from 1867-1873, Toronto mayors were not elected directly by the public. Instead, after each annual election of aldermen and councilmen, the assembled council would elect one of their members as mayor. For all other years, mayors were directly elected by popular vote, except in rare cases where a mayor was appointed by council to fill an unexpired term of office.

The "City of Toronto" has changed substantially over the years: the city amalgamated with neighbouring communities in 1882, 1891, 1908, 1912, and 1967.

The most sweeping change was most recently in 1998 when the six municipalities comprising Metropolitan Toronto – East York, Etobicoke, North York, Scarborough, York, and the former city of Toronto – and its regional government were amalgamated into a single City of Toronto (colloquially dubbed the "megacity") by an act of the provincial government.

The newly created position of mayor for the resulting single-tier megacity replaced all of the mayors of the former Metro municipalities. It also abolished the office of the Metro Chairman, which had formerly been the most senior political figure before amalgamation.

Outgoing North York Mayor Mel Lastman was elected as the first mayor of the amalgamated Toronto in 1997 and re-elected in 2000. On November 10, 2003, David Miller was voted in as Toronto's 63rd mayor. He took office as Mayor on December 1, 2003.

According to Victor Loring Russell, author of Mayors of Toronto Volume I, 14 out of the first 29 mayors were lawyers. http://www.torontofreepress.com/2004/spyros052004.htm

Prior to 1834, Toronto municipal leadership was governed by the Chairman of the General Quarter Session of Peace of the Home District Council.

Contents

1 19th Century
2 20th Century
3 Post-Amalgamation, \"
4 See also

19th Century

1. 1834 William Lyon Mackenzie, First Mayor
2. 1835 Robert Baldwin Sullivan
3. 1836 Thomas David Morrison
4. 1837 George Gurnett
5. 1838 - 1840 John Powell
6. 1841 George Monro
7. 1842 - 1844 Henry Sherwood
8. 1845 - 1847 William H. Boulton
-. 1848 - 1850 George Gurnett (2nd incumbency)
9. 1851 - 1853 John George Bowes
10. 1854 Joshua George Beard
11. 1855 George William Allan
12. 1856 John Beverley Robinson
13. 1857 John Hutchison
-. 1858 William H. Boulton (2nd incumbency -- resigned Nov. 8)
14. 1858 David Breakenridge Read (Nov. 11 - Dec. 31)
15. 1859 - 1860 Sir Adam Wilson
-. 1861 - 1863 John George Bowes (2nd incumbency)
16. 1864 - 1866 Francis Henry Medcalf
17. 1867 - 1868 James Edward Smith
18. 1869 - 1870 Samuel Bickerton Harman
19. 1871 - 1872 Joseph Sheard
20. 1873 Alexander Manning
-. 1874 - 1875 Francis Henry Medcalf (2nd incumbency)
21. 1876 - 1878 Angus Morrison
22. 1879 - 1880 James Beaty
23. 1881 - 1882 William Barclay McMurrich
24. 1883 - 1884 Arthur Radcliffe Boswell
-. 1885 Alexander Manning (2nd incumbency)
25. 1886 - 1887 William Holmes Howland
26. 1888 - 1891 Edward F. Clarke
27. 1892 - 1893 Robert John Fleming
28. 1894 - 1895 Warring Kennedy
-. 1896 - 1897 Robert John Fleming (2nd incumbency -- resigned Aug. 5, 1897)
29. 1897 - 1899 John Shaw (from Aug. 6, 1897)

20th Century

30. 1900 Ernest A. Macdonald
31. 1901 - 1902 Oliver Aiken Howland
32. 1903 - 1905 Thomas Urquhart
33. 1906 - 1907 Emerson Coatsworth
34. 1908 - 1909 Joseph Oliver
35. 1910 - 1912 George Reginald Geary
36. 1912 - 1914 Horatio Clarence Hocken
37. 1915 - 1921 Thomas Langton Church
38. 1922 - 1923 Charles A. Maguire
39. 1924 William W. Hiltz
40. 1925 - 1927 Thomas Foster
41. 1928 - 1929 Samuel McBride
42. 1930 Bert Sterling Wemp
43. 1931 - 1934 William James Stewart
44. 1935 James Simpson
-. 1936 Samuel McBride (2nd incumbency - died Nov. 10)
45. 1936 - 1937 William D. Robbins
46. 1938 - 1940 Ralph C. Day
47. 1941 - 1944 Frederick J. Conboy
48. 1945 - 1948 Robert Hood Saunders
49. 1948 - 1951 Hiram E. McCallum
50. 1952 - 1954 Allan A. Lamport
51. 1954 - 1955 Leslie Howard Saunders
52. 1955 - 1962 Nathan Phillips
53. 1963 Donald Dean Summerville (died Nov. 19)
54. 1963 - 1966 Philip Gerald Givens
55. 1966 - 1972 William Dennison
56. 1972 - August 31, 1978 David Edward Crombie (resigned)
57. September 1 - November 30, 1978 Fred Beavis (interim mayor)
58. December 1, 1978 - November 30, 1980 John Sewell
59. December 1, 1980 - November 30, 1991 Art Eggleton
60. December 1, 1991 - November 30, 1994 June Rowlands
61. December 1, 1994 - December 31, 1997 Barbara Hall

Post-Amalgamation, \"
62. January 1, 1998¹ - November 30, 2003 Mel Lastman (also mayor of North York from 1972-1998)
63. December 1, 2003 - present David Miller
¹ - January 1, 1998 marked the creation of the Amalgamated City of Toronto, which included the old City of Toronto, East York, Etobicoke, North York, Scarborough, and York.

List of Toronto mayors

19th Century

20th Century

See also