List of mayors of Hamilton, Ontario

List of mayors of Hamilton

Her Worship
Mayor (informal)

Member ofCity CouncilReports toHamilton City CouncilResidenceHamilton, OntarioSeatHamilton City HallAppointerDirectly elected by residents of HamiltonTerm lengthFour years, renewableInaugural holderColin Campbell FerrieFormation1847; 177 years ago (1847)Websitewww.hamilton.ca

The mayor of Hamilton is head of Hamilton City Council. The current mayor is Andrea Horwath.

Indirectly-elected mayors, 1847 to 1858

List of Indirectly-elected Mayors of Hamilton, Ontario from 1847 to 1859
No.	Name (Birth–Death)	Term			Council Election
1	Colin Campbell Ferrie (1808–1856)	1847	Independent	Unaffiliated	1847
2	George Sylvester Tiffany (1805–1856)	1848	Independent	Unaffiliated	1848
3	William L. Distin (1789–1879)	1849	Independent	Tory	1849
4	John Fisher (1806-1882)	1850	Independent	Republican^[b]	1850
5	John Rose Holden (1821-1879)	1851	Independent	Unaffiliated	1851
6	Nehemiah Ford (?)^[c]	1852	Independent	Unaffiliated	1852
7	William G. Kerr (1814/1815-1861)	1853	Independent	Unaffiliated	1853
8	James Cummings (1815-1894)	January to March 1854	Independent	Unaffiliated	1854
9	Charles Magill (1816-1898)	April 1854 to December 1855	Independent	Liberal	1854 1855
10	James Cummings (1815-1894)	1856	Independent	Unaffiliated	1856
11	John Francis Moore (1816-1870)	1857	Independent	Unaffiliated	1857
12	George Hamilton Mills (1827-1901)	1858	Independent	Unaffiliated	1858

Mayors of the City of Hamilton (pre-amalgamation), 1859 to 2000

List of Mayors of Hamilton, Ontario from 1859 to 2000
No.	Name (Birth–Death)	Term			Election
13	Henry McKinstry (1805-1871)	1859–1861	Independent	Unaffiliated	1859 1860 1861
14	Robert McElroy (?)	1862–1864	Independent	Unaffiliated	1862 1863 1864
15	Charles Magill (1816-1898)	1865-1866	Independent	Liberal	1865 1866
16	Benjamin Ernest Charlton (1835-1901)	1867	Independent	Unaffiliated	1867
17	Hutchison Clark (1806-1877)	1868	Independent	Unaffiliated	1868
18	James Edwin O'Reilly (1833-1907)	1869	Independent	Unaffiliated	1869
19	George Murison (1819-1889)	1870	Independent	Unaffiliated	1870
20	Daniel Black Chisholm (1832-1898)	1871-1872	Independent	Liberal-Conservative	1871 1872
21	Benjamin Ernest Charlton (1835-1901)	1873-1874	Independent	Unaffiliated	1873 1874
22	George Roach (?)	1875-1876	Independent	Unaffiliated	1875 1876
23	Francis Edwin Kilvert (1838-1910)	1877-1878	Independent	Conservative	1877 1878
24	James Edwin O'Reilly (1833-1907)	1879-1881	Independent	Unaffiliated	1879 1880 1881
25	Charles Magill (1816-1898)	1882-1883	Independent	Liberal	1882 1883
26	John James Mason (1842-1903)	1884-1885	Independent	Unaffiliated	1884 1885
27	Alexander McKay (1843-1912)	1886-1887	Independent	Conservative	1886 1887
28	William Doran (1834-1903)	1888-1889	Independent	Unaffiliated	1888 1889
29	David McLellan (1841-1892)	1890-1891	Independent	Unaffiliated	1890 1891
30	Peter Campbell Blaicher (1835-1900)	1892-1893	Independent	Unaffiliated	1892 1893
31	Alexander David Stewart (1852-1899)	1894-1895	Independent	Unaffiliated	1894 1895
32	George Elias Tuckett (1835-1900)	1896	Independent	Unaffiliated	1896
33	Edward Alexander Colquhoun (1844-1904)	1897-1898	Independent	Conservative	1897 1898
34	James Vernall Teetzel (1853-1926)	1899-1900	Independent	Unaffiliated	1899 1900
35	John Strathearne Hendrie (1857-1923)	1901-1902	Independent	Conservative	1901 1902
36	Wellington Jeffers Morden (1837-1928)	1903-1904	Independent	Unaffiliated	1903 1904
37	Sanford Dennis Biggar (1861-1920)	1905-1906	Independent	Unaffiliated	1905 1906
38	Thomas Joseph Stewart (1848-1926)	1907-1908	Independent	Conservative	1907 1908
39	John Inglis McLaren (1865-1948)	1909-1910	Independent	Liberal	1909 1910
40	George Harmon Lees (1860-1936)	1911-1912	Independent	Unaffiliated	1911 1912
41	John Allan (1856-1922)	1913-1914	Independent	Conservative	1913 1914
42	Chester Samuel Walters (1878-1958)	1915-1916	Independent	Unaffiliated	1915 1916
43	Charles Goodenough Booker (1859-1926)	1917-1920	Independent	Conservative	1917 1918 1919 1920
44	George Charles Coppley (1858-1936)	1921-1922	Independent	Unaffiliated	1921 1922
45	Thomas William Jutten (1861-1955)	1923-1925	Independent	Conservative	1923 January 1924^[e] December 1924
46	Freeman Ferrier Treleaven (1884-1952)	1926-1927	Independent	Unaffiliated	1925 1926
47	William Burton (1888-1944)	1928-1929	Independent	Conservative	1927 1928
48	John Peebles (1872-1948)	1930-1933	Independent	Liberal	1929 1930 1931 1932
49	Herbert Earl Wilton (1869-1937)	1934-1935	Independent	Conservative	1933 1934
50	William Robert Morrison (1878-1947)	1936-1943	Independent	Conservative	1935 1936 1937 1938 1939 1940 1941 1942
51	Samuel Lawrence (1879-1959)	1944-1949	CCF-Labour	CCF (Ontario)	1943 1944 1945 1946 1947 1948
52	Lloyd Douglas Jackson (1888-1973)	1950-1962	Independent	Liberal	1949 1950 1951 1952 1953 1954^[f] 1956 1958 1960
53	Victor Kennedy Copps (1919-1988)	1963-1976	Independent	Liberal	1962 1964 1966 1968 1970 1972 1973^[g] 1976
54	Vince Agro (1936-2020)	1976-1977 (as Acting Mayor)^[h]	Independent	Liberal	-
55	Jack MacDonald (1927-2010)	1977-1980	Independent	Progressive Conservative	1976 1978
56	Bill Powell (1907-1992)	1981-1982	Independent	CCF	1980
57	Bob Morrow (1946-2018)	1983-2000	Independent	Progressive Conservative	1982^[i] 1985 1988 1991 1994 1997

Mayors of the City of Hamilton, 2000 - present

List of Mayors of Hamilton, Ontario from 2000 to the present
No.	Name (Birth–Death)	Term			Election
58	Robert E. Wade (1933-2023)	2000-2003	Independent	Unaffiliated	2000
59	Larry Di Ianni (1948 - )	2003-2006	Independent	Liberal	2003
60	Fred Eisenberger (1952 - )	2006-2010	Independent	Conservative	2006
61	Bob Bratina (1944 - )	2010-2014	Independent	Liberal	2010
62	Fred Eisenberger (1952 - )	2014-2022	Independent	Conservative	2014 2018
63	Andrea Horwath (1962 - )	2022 -	Independent	New Democratic	2022

Notes

^ Mayors of Hamilton serve as independents in accordance with the Province of Ontario's prohibition on official partisan participation in municipal politics. Despite this, some mayors have actively campaigned as members of parties or electoral slates.
^ Fisher moved to Batavia, New York in 1857 and was elected to the 41st Congress as a Republican.
^ Ford's birth and death years are unknown.
^ Mayors of Hamilton serve as independents in accordance with the Province of Ontario's prohibition on official partisan participation in municipal politics. Despite this, some mayors have actively campaigned as members of parties or electoral slates.
^ A referendum was held during the January 1, 1924 election which resulted in the electors of Hamilton approving a change in the municipal election date to early December. Subsequent elections were held early December with inaugurations in early January of the following year.
^ Following 1954, municipal terms were extended to two-years.
^ A special election was held in 1973 upon the creation of the Region of Hamilton-Wentworth.
^ Agro served as Acting Mayor following Copps' incapacitation due to a heart attack but lost an election-bid to serve a full term in 1976.
^ Municipal terms were extended to three years in 1982.
^ Mayors of Hamilton serve as independents in accordance with the Province of Ontario's prohibition on official partisan participation in municipal politics. Despite this, some mayors have actively campaigned as members of parties or electoral slates.

References

"Mayors of Hamilton". Hamilton Public Library. Archived from the original on January 15, 2013. Retrieved September 21, 2014.

Municipal Elections in Hamilton, Ontario

One-year Terms: 1847; 1848; 1849; 1850; 1851; 1852; 1853; 1854; 1855; 1856; 1857; 1858; 1859; 1860; 1861; 1862; 1863; 1864; 1865; 1866; 1867; 1868; 1869; 1870; 1871; 1872; 1873; 1874; 1875; 1876; 1877; 1878; 1879; 1880; 1881; 1882; 1883; 1884; 1885; 1886; 1887; 1888; 1889; 1890; 1891; 1892; 1893; 1894; 1895; 1896; 1897; 1898; 1899; 1900; 1901; 1902; 1903; 1904; 1905; 1906; 1907; 1908; 1909; 1910; 1911; 1912; 1913; 1914; 1915; 1916; 1917; 1918; 1919; 1920; 1921; 1922; 1923; January 1924; December 1924; 1925; 1926; 1927; 1928; 1929; 1930; 1931; 1932; 1933; 1934; 1935; 1936; 1937; 1938; 1939; 1940; 1941; 1942; 1943; 1944; 1945; 1946; 1947; 1948; 1949; 1950; 1951; 1952; 1953

Two-year terms: 1954; 1956; 1958; 1960; 1962; 1964; 1966; 1968; 1970; 1972

Special election upon creation of the Region of Hamilton-Wentworth: 1973

Reversion to two-year terms: 1976; 1978; 1980

Three-year terms: 1982; 1985; 1988; 1991; 1994; 1997; 2000; 2003

Four-year terms: 2006; 2010; 2014; 2018; 2022; 2026

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Features	Flag Notable Hamiltonians
History	1930 British Empire Games Auchmar Bank of Hamilton Battlefield House Battle of Stoney Creek Dundurn Castle George Hamilton Grand Lodge of Canada Hamilton Tigers (NHL) HMCS Haida List of National Historic Sites List of royal visits Studebaker Canada Tim Hortons Thomas McQuesten Timeline of events Toronto, Hamilton and Buffalo Railway USS Hamilton USS Scourge War of 1812 Whitehern
Geography	List of waterfalls Bruce Trail Cootes Paradise Desjardins Canal Golden Horseshoe Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area Hamilton Harbour Lake Ontario Niagara Escarpment Royal Botanical Gardens Spencer Gorge/Webster's Falls Conservation Area Twenty Mile Creek
Communities	Ainslie Wood Ancaster Beasley Binbrook Dundas Flamborough Glanbrook Lynden North End Stoney Creek Westdale
Economy	Arcelor Mittal / Dofasco Economic history Film industry in Hamilton Hamilton Health Sciences Head offices in Hamilton List of tallest buildings in Hamilton U.S. Steel / Stelco
Politics	Hamilton City Hall Hamilton, Ontario City Council List of Hamilton Mayors
Public services	City of Hamilton EMS Hamilton Police Service
Hospitals	Chedoke Hospital Hamilton General Hospital Juravinski Cancer Centre Juravinski Hospital McMaster Children's Hospital McMaster University Medical Centre St. Joseph's Healthcare Hamilton St. Peter's Hospital
Education	Hamilton Public Library Hamilton-Wentworth Catholic District School Board Hamilton-Wentworth District School Board Hillfield Strathallan College Columbia International College McMaster Divinity College McMaster University Mohawk College Redeemer University College
Culture	African Lion Safari Around the Bay Road Race Art Gallery of Hamilton Canadian Football Hall of Fame Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum Dundas Cactus Festival Hamilton Bulldogs Hamilton Tiger-Cats Labour Day Classic List of Attractions in Hamilton Media in Hamilton Pride Hamilton Power Play (TV series) Sports in Hamilton Supercrawl Sports venues in Hamilton
Transportation	GO Transit Hamilton GO West Harbour GO Confederation GO Hamilton Street Railway BLAST network Hamilton LRT A-Line Hamilton Bike Share John C. Munro Hamilton International Airport List of streets in Hamilton
Parks	Bayfront Park Beasley Park Confederation Beach Park Gore Park Hamilton–Brantford–Cambridge Trails Mohawk Sports Park Pier 4 Park