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Mayors of Winnipeg, Manitoba

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  • Robert Ashley Steen (1933 - 1979)
    Robert Ashley Steen, QC (August 12, 1933 in Winnipeg, Manitoba – May 10, 1979) was a politician in Manitoba, Canada. He was a Progressive Conservative member of the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba fro...
  • Brian Bowman
    Brian Bowman is the current Mayor of Winnipeg (Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada) since November 4, 2014.
  • Glen R. Murray
    Glen R. Murray is a Canadian politician and urban issues advocate. He served as the 41st Mayor of Winnipeg, Manitoba from 1998 to 2004, and was the first openly gay mayor of a large North American city...
  • Sam Katz
    Michael "Sam" Katz, OM (born August 20, 1951) is a former politician and was the 42nd mayor of Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. He is also a businessperson and a member of the Order of Manitoba.

The position of mayor was created in 1873 following the city's incorporation (and renamed from Fort Garry). The mayor is a member of Winnipeg City Council, but does not represent a ward.

Mayor of Winnipeg

Nineteenth Century

  • Francis Evans Cornish, Q. C. (1874)
  • William Nassau Kennedy (1875–1876)
  • Thomas Scott (1877–1878)
  • Alexander Logan (1st time) (1879–1880)
  • Elias George Conklin (1881)
  • Alexander Logan (2nd time) (1882)
  • Alexander McMicken (1883)
  • Alexander Logan (3rd time) (1884)
  • Charles Edward Hamilton (1885)
  • Henry Shaver Wesbrook (1886)
  • Lyman Melvin Jones (1887–1888)
  • Thomas Ryan (1889)
  • Alfred Pearson (1890–1891)
  • Alexander Macdonald (1892)
  • Thomas William Taylor (1893–1894)
  • Thomas Gilroy (1895)
  • Richard Willis Jameson (1896)
  • William F. McCreary (1897)
  • Alfred Joseph Andrews (1898–1899)

Twentieth Century

  • Horace Wilson (1900)
  • John Arbuthnot (1901–1903)
  • Thomas Sharpe (1904–1906)
  • James Henry Ashdown (1907–1908)
  • William Sanford Evans (1909–1911)
  • Richard Deans Waugh (1st time) (1912)
  • Thomas Russ Deacon (1913–1914)
  • Richard Deans Waugh (2dn time) (1915–1916)
  • David J. Dyson (1917) (Unseated on recount, January 5, 1917)
  • Frederick Harvey Davidson (1917) (Declared elected on recount, January 8, 1917)
  • Frederick Harvey Davidson (1918) (Only served once as Mayor for two years)
  • Charles Frederick Gray (1919–1920)
  • Edward Parnell (1921-June 9, 1922)
  • Frank Oliver Fowler (June 20, 1922 and served for the remainder of the year)
  • Seymour James Farmer (1923–1924)
  • Lt. Col. Ralph Humphreys Webb, D.S.O., M.C. (1st time) (1925–1927)
  • Lt. Col. Daniel McLean (1928–1929)
  • Lt. Col. Ralph Humphreys Webb, D.S.O., M.C. (2nd time) (1930–1934)
  • John Queen, M. L. A. (1st time) (1935–1936)
  • Frederick Edgar Warriner, D. D. S. (1937)
  • John Queen, M. L. A. (2nd time) (1938–1940)
  • John Queen (3rd time) (1941–1942)
  • Garnet Coulter, Q. C. (1943–1954)
  • George Edward Sharpe (1955–1956)
  • Stephen Juba, M. L. A. (1957–1959)
  • Stephen Juba, OC (1960–1977) (Only served once as Mayor)
  • Robert Steen, Q. C. (1977–May 10, 1979) (Died in office)
  • William Norrie, Q. C. (1979–1992) (Elected to the office of Mayor on June 21, 1979)
  • Susan Ann Thompson (1992–1998)
  • Glen Murray (1998–cont.)

Twenty-First Century

  • Glen Murray (cont.-May 11, 2004) (Resigned to run in the 2004 Federal Election)
  • Sam Katz (2004–2014) (1st Jewish Mayor of Winnipeg)
  • Brian Bowman (2014–present)

Source

History of Winnipeg: Mayors, Past and Present)