List of mayors of Brampton
Appearance
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Mayor of Brampton | |
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since December 1, 2018 | |
Style |
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Member of | City Council |
Reports to | Brampton City Council |
Residence | Brampton |
Seat | Brampton City Hall |
Appointer | Directly elected by residents of Brampton |
Term length | Four years, renewable |
Precursor | Reeve of Brampton |
Inaugural holder | John Haggert |
Formation | 1874 |
Salary | $148,371 (2013)[1] |
Website | Office of the Mayor |
The mayor of Brampton is head of the executive branch of the Brampton City Council. The current mayor is Patrick Brown.
The following is a list of mayors of Brampton:
List
[edit]- John Haggert, 1874–February 1877
- James Golding, 1877–1879
- William A. McCulla, 1880–1882
- Matthew M. Elliott, 1883–1884
- Thomas Milner, 1886–1887 (died in office)
- A. F. Campbell, 1887–1888
- Thomas Holtby, 1889–1890
- Manton Treadgold, 1891–1892
- John T. Mullin, 1893–1894
- Edwin O. Runians, 1895–1896
- Edward H. Crandell, 1897–1898
- William Edwin Milner, 1899–1900
- Thomas Thauburn, 1901–1902
- Benjamin Franklin Justin, 1903–1905
- William Edwin Milner, 1906–June 1907
- C. A. Irvine, as Acting Mayor, June to July 1907, and as Mayor, July 1907[2]
- Samuel Charters, August to December 1907
- James Golding, 1908–1909
- Thomas Thauburn, 1910–1911
- Samuel Charters, 1911–1912
- Thomas W. Duggan, 1912–1913
- Thomas Mara, 1914–1915
- A. H. Milner, 1916–1917
- Louis John Carpenter "L. J. C." Bull, 1918–1919
- William J. Beatty, 1920–1921
- John S. Beck, 1922
- Henry W. Dawson, 1923–1924
- Franklin W. Wegenast, 1925–1928
- George Akehurst, 1929–1930
- Franklin W. Wegenast, 1930–1931
- George Akehurst, 1931–1932
- John S. Beck, 1933–1934
- Ernest W. McCulloch, 1935–1936
- Wilfred J. Abell, 1937–1938
- Robert P. Worthy, 1939–1942
- William A. Bates, 1943–1944
- Bartholomew Harper Bull, 1945–1946
- John Stafford Beck, 1946–1948
- Harold R. Lawrence, 1949–1951
- B. Harper Bull, 1952–1954
- Nance Horwood, 1955–1958 (born Annie Barter)[3]
- C. Carman Core, 1959–1962
- Russel E. Prouse, 1963–1966
- William H. Brydon, 1967–1969
- James E. Archdekin, 1970–1982
- Ken Whillans, 1982–September 1990, died in office
- Paul Beisel, 1990–1991, Whillans' appointed replacement
- Peter Robertson, 1991–2000
- Susan Fennell, 2000–2014
- Linda Jeffrey, December 1, 2014 – December 1, 2018
- Patrick Brown, December 1, 2018–Present
Note that some publications credit C. A. Irvine as a mayor; he never served in this capacity.
Roads named after the mayors
[edit]By neighbourhood:
- Eldomar Heights: Golding Avenue, Milner Road, Beatty Avenue, Core Crescent, Lawrence Crescent
- Flowertown area: Holtby Avenue, Campbell Drive, and Horwood Drive.
- Haggert Avenue, Treadgold Road (Humber West Parkway and Castlemore), McCulla Avenue (near Agnes Taylor P.S.), Elliott Street, Charters Road (Hansen and Vodden), Duggan Drive (Charolais and Chingaucousy), Mara Crescent (at Ken Whillians Drive), Dawson Crescent (Centre at Kennedy), Bates Court (Queen and Chinguacousy), Prouse Drive (Williams Parkway and Centre), Brydon Crescent (Queen and Chinguacousy), Archdekin Drive (at Rutherford Road, near Vodden), Ken Whillans Drive (Vodden to Church St.), Peter Robertson Boulevard (Dixie Road to Torbram Road)
- Abell Drive (Williams Parkway and Kennedy)
- In Peel Village, there is Bartley Bull Parkway (Steeles & Hurontario)
Runians, Thauburn, Irvine, Beck, Wegenast, Akehurst, McCulloch, Biesel and Fennell do not have roads named after them as yet.
The names last names of mayors Mullin, Justin, and Worthy were all rejected at one point or another. There is a Crandall Court, a different spelling than Mayor Crandell.
Statistics
[edit]- Shortest term as mayor
- S. Charters at four months was preceded and succeeded by William Edwin Milner
- Longest term as mayor
- Susan Fennell, fourteen years (as of August 2014)
- Mayors who died in office
- Thomas Milner in 1887
- James E. Archdekin in 1982 (died from heart attack)
- Ken Whillans in 1990 (died on vacation)
References
[edit]- ^ "Compensation Rates for the Mayor" (PDF). Office of the Mayor. City of Brampton. Retrieved March 3, 2014.
- ^ "Brampton Cemetery receipt, purchase of two lots, N. Carter", collection of the Region of Peel Archives at the Peel Heritage Complex, 2010.145.
- ^ "HORWOOD - Annie "Nance"". Brampton Times. Brampton, Ontario. November 24, 1986. p. 20.