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"Mayor" (from the Latin māior, meaning "greater") is a modern title used in many countries for the highest ranking officer in a municipal government.
In many systems, the mayor is an elected politician who serves as chief executive officer and/or ceremonial official of many types of municipalities....
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Francis Drake
Sir Francis Drake, Vice Admiral (1540 – 27 January 1596), was an English sea captain, privateer, navigator, slaver, a renowned pirate, and politician of the Elizabethan era. Queen Elizabeth I awarded Drake a knighthood in 1581. He was second-in...
Date of birth:
- 1540
Date of death:
- Jan 27, 1596 (age 56 years)
Joshua Reynolds
Sir Joshua Reynolds RA FRS FRSA (16 July 1723 – 23 February 1792) was an important and influential 18th century English painter, specialising in portraits and promoting the "Grand Style" in painting which depended on idealisation of the imperfect....
Date of birth:
- Jul 16, 1723
Date of death:
- Feb 23, 1792 (age 68 years)
William Holt
William Holt (1737 – 1791) was a Colonial American mayor of Williamsburg, Virginia from 1776 to 1777 and again from 1782 to 1783.
Holt was born in Virginia the son of David and Margaret Holt. His brother John Holt also was mayor of Williamsburg. He...
Date of birth:
- 1737
Date of death:
- 1791 (age 54 years)
Jean Sylvain Bailly
Jean-Sylvain Bailly (15 September 1736 Paris – 12 November 1793 Paris) was a French astronomer and orator, one of the leaders of the early part of the French Revolution. He was ultimately guillotined during the Reign of Terror.
Born in Paris, he was...
Date of birth:
- Sep 15, 1736
Date of death:
- Nov 12, 1793 (age 57 years)
John Darragh
John Darragh (1772 – May 13, 1828) was a U.S. politician. He served as the Mayor of Pittsburgh from 1817 to 1825.
Darragh was born in Ireland and early in life immigrated to Pittsburgh. He began his career as a merchant on Fourth Avenue between Wood...
Date of birth:
- 1772
Date of death:
- May 13, 1828 (age 56 years)
Matthew McCauley
Matthew McCauley (July 11, 1850, Owen Sound, Ontario - October 25, 1930, Sexsmith, Alberta) was the first mayor of the city of Edmonton, and a member of the legislative assemblies of both the Northwest Territories and Alberta.
McCauley was born July...
Date of birth:
- Jul 11, 1850
Date of death:
- Oct 25, 1930 (age 80 years)
Herbert Charles Wilson
Herbert Charles Wilson (December 7, 1859 – December 17, 1909) was a politician in Alberta, Canada, mayor of Edmonton, and presiding officer of the Legislative Assembly of the Northwest Territories.
Wilson was born in Picton, Ontario on December 7,...
Date of birth:
- Dec 7, 1859
Date of death:
- Dec 17, 1909 (age 50 years)
Cornelius Gallagher
Cornelius Gallagher (December 31, 1854 – 1932) was a politician in Alberta, Canada and a municipal councillor and mayor of Edmonton.
Gallagher was born December 31, 1854 in Saint John, New Brunswick and, as a young adult, went into the meat business...
Date of birth:
- Dec 31, 1854
Date of death:
- 1932 (age 77 years)
John Alexander McDougall
John Alexander McDougall (May 20, 1854 – December 17, 1928) was a politician in Alberta, Canada, a municipal councillor and mayor in Edmonton, and a member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta.
John Alexander McDougall was born May 20, 1854 in...
Date of birth:
- May 20, 1854
Date of death:
- Dec 17, 1928 (age 74 years)
William S. Edmiston
William S. Edmiston (born ???, died July 24, 1903) was a politician in Alberta, Canada and a mayor of Edmonton.
Edmiston came to Canada from Glasgow, Scotland in 1882, and settled in Clover Bar, Alberta. He moved to Edmonton in 1895, and became the...
Date of death:
- Jul 24, 1903
Kenneth W. MacKenzie
Kenneth W. MacKenzie (February 3, 1862 – October 9, 1929) was a politician in Alberta, Canada and a two-time mayor of Edmonton.
MacKenzie was born on a farm near Lucknow, Ontario on February 3, 1862. He left school during his early teens, but...
Date of birth:
- Feb 3, 1862
Date of death:
- Oct 9, 1929 (age 67 years)
Charles May
Charles May (June 30, 1858 – 1932) was a politician in Alberta, Canada and a mayor of Edmonton
May was born in Wellington County, Ontario on June 30, 1858. He left school in 1880 and moved to Manitoba to homestead. He later spent thirteen years as a...
Date of birth:
- Jun 30, 1858
Date of death:
- 1932 (age 73 years)
William Antrobus Griesbach
Major General William Antrobus Griesbach CB CMG DSO (3 January 1878 - 21 January 1945) was a Canadian politician, decorated soldier, mayor of Edmonton, and member of the Canadian House of Commons and Senate of Canada.
Griesbach was born in Fort Qu...
Date of birth:
- Jan 3, 1878
Date of death:
- Jan 21, 1945 (age 67 years)
Party:
Elizabeth Garrett Anderson
Dr. Elizabeth Garrett Anderson, LSA, MD (9 June 1836 – 17 December 1917), was an English physician and feminist, the first woman to gain a medical qualification in Britain.
Garrett was born in 1836 at 1 Commercial Road, Whitechapel, London, the...
Date of birth:
- Jun 9, 1836
Date of death:
- Dec 17, 1917 (age 81 years)
Robert Lee
Robert Lee (March 10, 1862 – August 5, 1925) was a politician in Alberta, Canada and a former mayor of Edmonton.
Lee was born in Lanark County, Ontario on March 10, 1862 and graduated from the Dominion Business College in Kingston. He married...
Date of birth:
- Mar 10, 1862
Date of death:
- Aug 5, 1925 (age 63 years)
George S. Armstrong
George Seale Armstrong (died June 9, 1947) was a politician in Alberta, Canada and a former mayor of Edmonton.
Armstrong was born in Hopeville, Grey County, Ontario. He came to Edmonton in 1905 or 1906, and ran for Edmonton City Council as an...
Date of death:
- Jun 9, 1947
William McNamara
William J. McNamara (born December 27, 1879) was a politician in Alberta, Canada, a mayor of both Edmonton and Wetaskiwin, Alberta, and the first mayor of Edmonton to be forced from office over a scandal.
McNamara was born in Renfrew, Ontario on...
Date of birth:
- Dec 27, 1879 (age 130 years)
William Thomas Henry
William Thomas Henry (January 2, 1872 – September 11, 1952) was a politician in Alberta, Canada, a member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta, and a mayor of Edmonton.
Henry was born in Prince Edward Island January 2, 1872. He moved to Calgary,...
Date of birth:
- Jan 2, 1872
Date of death:
- Sep 11, 1952 (age 80 years)
Harry Marshall Erskine Evans
Harry Marshall Erskine Evans (August 17, 1876 – September 20, 1973) was a politician in Alberta, Canada and a former mayor of Edmonton.
Harry Evans was born August 17, 1876 in Davenport, Ontario (which is now part of Toronto) to the Rev. and Mrs. J...
Date of birth:
- Aug 17, 1876
Date of death:
- Sep 20, 1973 (age 97 years)
Joseph Clarke
Joseph Andrew Clarke (September 20, 1869 – July 26, 1941) was a politician and lawyer from Canada. He served twice as mayor of Edmonton, Alberta, was a candidate for election to the Canadian House of Commons and the Legislative Assembly of Alberta,...
Date of birth:
- Sep 20, 1869
Date of death:
- Jul 26, 1941 (age 71 years)
David Milwyn Duggan
David Milwyn Duggan (May 5, 1879 – May 4, 1942) was a politician in Alberta, Canada, a mayor of Edmonton, a member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta, and a leader of the Conservative Party of Alberta.
David Duggan was born in Builth, Wales May...
Date of birth:
- May 5, 1879
Date of death:
- May 4, 1942 (age 63 years)
Meir Dizengoff
Meir Dizengoff (Hebrew: מאיר דיזנגוף, Russian: Меер Янкелевич Дизенгоф, 25 February 1861- 23 September 1936) was a Zionist politician and the first mayor of Tel Aviv.
Meir Dizengoff was born in 1861 in the village of Yakimovichi (which has since...
Date of birth:
- Feb 25, 1861
Date of death:
- Sep 23, 1936 (age 75 years)
Kenneth Alexander Blatchford
Kenneth Alexander (Kenny) Blatchford (March 5, 1882-April 20, 1933) a former mayor of Edmonton, Alberta and member of the Canadian House of Commons.
Kenny Blatchford was born in Minnedosa, Manitoba. He was educated at a commercial college, and was...
Date of birth:
- Mar 5, 1882
Date of death:
- Apr 20, 1933 (age 51 years)
Party:
David Bloch-Blumenfeld
David Bloch-Blumenfeld (Hebrew: דוד בלוך-בלומנפלד; 1880 – 27 November 1947), sometimes simply David Bloch, was one of the leaders of the Labor Zionism movement in Mandate Palestine and mayor of Tel Aviv in 1925–27. Moshav Dovev in northern Israel...
Ambrose Upton Gledstanes Bury
Ambrose Upton Gledstanes Bury (August 1, 1869 – March 29, 1951) was a politician in Alberta, Canada, a mayor of Edmonton, and a member of the Canadian House of Commons.
Ambrose Bury was born in Downings House, County Kildare, Ireland on August 1,...
Date of birth:
- Aug 1, 1869
Date of death:
- Mar 29, 1951 (age 81 years)
Party:
James McCrie Douglas
James McCrie Douglas (February 5, 1867 – March 16, 1950) was a politician in Alberta, Canada, a mayor of Edmonton, and a member of the Canadian House of Commons.
Douglas was born February 5, 1867 in Middleville, Lanark County, Ontario. He was...
Date of birth:
- Feb 5, 1867
Date of death:
- Mar 16, 1950 (age 83 years)
Daniel Kennedy Knott
Daniel Kennedy Knott (1889 – November 26, 1959) was a labour activist and politician in Alberta, Canada and a mayor of Edmonton.
Dan Knott was born in Collingwood, Ontario in 1889. He apprenticed as a printer and worked for the Buffalo Express...
Date of birth:
- 1889
Date of death:
- Nov 26, 1959 (age 70 years)
Israel Rokach
Israel Rokach, OBE (Hebrew: ישראל רוקח) (December 31, 1886 – September 13, 1959) was an Israeli politician, Knesset member, and mayor of Tel Aviv from November 15, 1936 to April 13, 1953.
Israel Rokach was born in 1886 in Neve Tzedek, then part of...
Date of birth:
- Dec 31, 1886
Date of death:
- Sep 13, 1959 (age 72 years)
John Wesley Fry
John Wesley Fry (December 5, 1876 – December 23, 1946) was a politician in Alberta, Canada and a mayor of Edmonton.
John Fry was born in Woodstock, Ontario on December 5, 1876. He grew up in Woodstock and Owen Sound and moved to Regina, Saskatchewan...
Date of birth:
- Dec 5, 1876
Date of death:
- Dec 23, 1946 (age 70 years)
Frank Murphy
William Francis (Frank) Murphy (April 13, 1890 – July 19, 1949) was a politician and jurist from Michigan. He served as First Assistant U.S. District Attorney, Eastern Michigan District (1920-23), Recorder's Court Judge, Detroit (1923-30). Mayor of...
Date of birth:
- Apr 13, 1890
Date of death:
- Jul 19, 1949 (age 59 years)
Party:
Harry Dean Ainlay
Harry Dean Ainlay (January 3, 1887 – March 12, 1970) was a Canadian educator, politician, mayor of Edmonton, Alberta, and candidate for the Legislative Assembly of Alberta, the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia, and the Canadian House of...
Date of birth:
- Jan 3, 1887
Date of death:
- Mar 12, 1970 (age 83 years)
Sidney Parsons
Sidney Parsons (1893 – April 22, 1955) was a Canadian politician, mayor of Edmonton, Alberta, and candidate for election to the Legislative Assembly of Alberta.
Parsons was born in Revelstoke, near to Plymouth, Devon, England in 1893. He was...
Date of birth:
- 1893
Date of death:
- Apr 22, 1955 (age 62 years)
Party:
William Hawrelak
William Hawrelak (October 3, 1915 – November 7, 1975) was a politician in Alberta, Canada, the longest-serving mayor in Edmonton's history, and a candidate for election to the Canadian House of Commons.
Hawrelak was born in Shandro, Alberta to...
Date of birth:
- Oct 3, 1915
Date of death:
- Nov 7, 1975 (age 60 years)
Chaim Levanon
Chaim Levanon (Hebrew: חיים לבנון) (1899 - 1986) was an Israeli politician and mayor of Tel Aviv between April 13, 1953 and 1959.
Levanon was born in Kraków, Poland, in 1899 as Chaim Yosef Levinstein. After graduating from a yeshiva, he studied...
Date of birth:
- 1899
Date of death:
- 1986 (age 87 years)
Mordechai Namir
Mordechai Namir (Hebrew: מרדכי נמיר, born Mordechai Nemirovsky on 23 February 1897, died 22 February 1975) was an Israeli politician, who served as the mayor of Tel Aviv, a Knesset member and government minister, as well as being one of the heads...
Date of birth:
- Feb 23, 1897
Date of death:
- Feb 22, 1975 (age 78 years)
Frederick John Mitchell
Frederick John Mitchell (born December 4, 1893; died December 25, 1979) was a politician in Alberta, Canada, a mayor of Edmonton, and a candidate for election to the Legislative Assembly of Alberta.
Fred Mitchell was born December 4, 1893 in...
Date of birth:
- Dec 4, 1893
Date of death:
- 1979 (age 85 years)
Elmer Ernest Roper
Elmer Ernest Roper (June 4, 1893 – November 12, 1994) was a politician in Alberta, Canada. He served as leader of the Alberta Co-operative Commonwealth Federation, the mayor of Edmonton, and a member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta. He was...
Date of birth:
- Jun 4, 1893
Date of death:
- Nov 12, 1994 (age 101 years)
Party:
Vincent Martin Dantzer
Vincent Martin Dantzer (2 October 1923 - 13 March 2001) was a Canadian lawyer, economist, and politician, a member of the Canadian House of Commons, and a mayor of Edmonton.
Dantzer was born in Rush Lake, Saskatchewan on October 2, 1923. He enlisted...
Date of birth:
- Oct 2, 1923
Date of death:
- Mar 13, 2001 (age 77 years)
Ivor Dent
Ivor G. Dent, CM (February 7, 1924 – March 29, 2009) was a politician from Alberta, Canada, a former mayor of Edmonton, and a former candidate for the Canadian House of Commons and the Legislative Assembly of Alberta.
Ivor Dent was born in Prince...
Date of birth:
- Feb 7, 1924
Date of death:
- Mar 29, 2009 (age 85 years)
Yehoshua Rabinovitz
Yehoshua Rabinovitz (Hebrew: יהושע רבינוביץ, born 1911, died 14 August 1979) was an Israeli politician who served as a government minister and mayor of Tel Aviv.
Born in Vishneva in Poland (today in Belarus), Rabinovitz attended high school in...
Date of birth:
- 1911 (age 98 years)
Shlomo Lahat
Maj. Gen. Shlomo "Chich" Lahat (Hebrew: שלמה להט; born November 9, 1927) is a former Israeli general and politician.
Lahat was born in Germany and made Aliyah in 1933. He served in the Haganah and the Israel Defense Forces. In the IDF, he...
Date of birth:
- Nov 9, 1927 (age 82 years)
Terry Cavanagh
Terence James (Terry) Cavanagh (born July 19, 1926) is a Canadian politician and former mayor and municipal councillor in Edmonton, Alberta. He was Edmonton's first native-born mayor.
Cavanagh was born in Edmonton July 19, 1926, to recent Scottish...
Date of birth:
- Jul 19, 1926 (age 83 years)
Carole Keeton Strayhorn
Carole Keeton Strayhorn (formerly McClellan, then Rylander) (born September 13, 1939) is the former Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts.
Elected to the comptroller's post in 1998 as a Republican, Strayhorn ran as an independent candidate for Texas...
Date of birth:
- Sep 13, 1939 (age 70 years)
Party:
Cecil John Harry Purves
Cecil John Harry (Cec) Purves (born October 18, 1933) is a politician in Alberta, Canada and a former mayor of Edmonton.
Purves was born in Edmonton on October 18, 1933. He grew up in the city's Riverdale district and graduated high school in the...
Date of birth:
- Oct 18, 1933 (age 76 years)
Laurence Decore
Laurence G. Decore, CM (June 28, 1940 – November 6, 1999) was a Ukrainian-Canadian lawyer and politician from Alberta. He was mayor of Edmonton, a member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta, and leader of the Alberta Liberal Party.
Decore was...
Date of birth:
- Jun 28, 1940
Date of death:
- Nov 6, 1999 (age 59 years)
Party:
Janice Rhea Reimer
Janice Rhea Reimer (born May 23, 1952) is a Canadian politician and the first female mayor of Edmonton, Alberta, having served in that capacity from 1989 until 1995. Highlights of her time in office included the inception of a new waste management...
Date of birth:
- May 23, 1952 (age 57 years)
Pierre Bérégovoy
Pierre Eugène Bérégovoy (23 December 1925 – 1 May 1993) was a French Socialist politician of Ukrainian origin. He served as Prime Minister under François Mitterrand from 1992 to 1993.
Pierre Bérégovoy was born in Déville-lès-Rouen, Seine-Maritime to...
Date of birth:
- Dec 23, 1925
Date of death:
- May 1, 1993 (age 67 years)
Party:
Sarah Palin
Sarah Louise Palin ( ˈpeɪlɨn (help·info); née Heath; born February 11, 1964) is an American politician who served as Governor of Alaska from 2006 until her resignation in 2009 and was the Republican candidate for Vice President of the United States...
Date of birth:
- Feb 11, 1964 (age 45 years)
Party:
Roni Milo
Roni Milo (Hebrew: רוני מילוא, born 26 November 1949 as Ron Milikovsky) is an Israeli politician, lawyer and journalist, and a former Knesset member who held several ministerial positions. He was also mayor of Tel Aviv from 1993 to 1998.
Milo...
Date of birth:
- Nov 26, 1949 (age 60 years)
Bill Smith
William (Bill) Smith (born December 11, 1935) is a businessman, Canadian politician, and former mayor of Edmonton, Alberta.
Smith was first elected in 1995 after defeating incumbent Mayor Jan Reimer and was re-elected in 1998 & 2001. In 2004, Smith...
Date of birth:
- Dec 11, 1935 (age 74 years)
Ron Huldai
Ron Huldai (Hebrew: רון חולדאי, b. 26 August 1944) is an Israeli politician, academic administrator, and former fighter pilot, and the current mayor of Tel Aviv-Yafo. He was born in 1944 in Hulda (his surname is taken from the name of the kibbutz)...
Date of birth:
- Aug 26, 1944 (age 65 years)
Enrique Peñalosa
Enrique Peñalosa Londoño is a Colombian politician, former mayor of Bogotá, from 1998 until 2001. He was a runner-up for a second term on October 2007. He currently works as a consultant on urban vision and strategy and gives conferences around the...
Date of birth:
- 1954 (age 55 years)
Party:
John F. Street
John Franklin Street (born October 15, 1943) was the 97th Mayor of the City of Philadelphia. He was first elected to a term beginning on January 3, 2000, and was re-elected to a second term beginning in 2004. He is a Democrat and became mayor after...
Date of birth:
- Oct 15, 1943 (age 66 years)
Party:
Klaus Wowereit
Klaus Wowereit (born 1 October 1953 in West Berlin) is a German politician, member of the SPD (Social Democratic Party), and has been the Mayor of Berlin since the 2001 state elections, where he won a plurality of the votes, 29.7%. He served as...
Date of birth:
- Oct 1, 1953 (age 56 years)
Thomas Suozzi
Thomas R. "Tom" Suozzi (born August 31, 1962 in Glen Cove, New York) is the county executive of Nassau County, New York. He was first elected to the post of county executive in 2001, the first Democratic county executive since Eugene Nickerson left...
Date of birth:
- Aug 31, 1962 (age 47 years)
Party:
Steven L. Abrams
Steven L. Abrams (born in 1958 in Des Moines, Iowa) is the appointed District Four Palm_Beach_County commissioner and former mayor of the City of Boca Raton, Florida. A lawyer, he was elected mayor in March 2001 and re-elected in 2003 and 2005. He...
Date of birth:
- 1958 (age 51 years)
Michèle Alliot-Marie
Michèle Alliot-Marie is France’s Minister of the interior and overseas territories, France's first woman in this position. She is also the first woman to lead Rally for the Republic, a major French political party and the first female...
Date of birth:
- Sep 10, 1946 (age 63 years)
William Barnet III
William Barnet III has been President and CEO of William Barnet & Son., Inc., a synthetic fiber processing business, since 1976.
Date of birth:
- Aug 2, 1942 (age 67 years)
Stephen Mandel
Stephen Mandel (born July 18, 1945) is a Canadian politician and the current mayor of Edmonton, Alberta.
Mandel received an Associate of Arts Degree from Lincoln College in Lincoln, Illinois, a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration from...
Date of birth:
- Jul 18, 1945 (age 64 years)
