List of Toronto Mayors - Definition and Overview

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 vote 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. Note that the definition of Toronto changed substantially during this period with the city amalgamating with neighbouring communities in 1882, 1891, 1908, 1912, 1967, and most recently (and most sweepingly) in 1998.

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

• 1834 William Lyon Mackenzie
• 1835 Robert Baldwin Sullivan
• 1836 Thomas David Morrison
• 1837 George Gurnett
• 1838 - 1840 John Powell
• 1841 George Monro
• 1842 - 1844 Henry Sherwood
• 1845 - 1847 William H. Boulton
• 1848 - 1850 George Gurnett (2nd incumbency)
• 1851 - 1853 John George Bowes
• 1854 Joshua George Beard
• 1855 George William Allan
• 1856 John Beverley Robinson
• 1857 John Hutchison
• 1858 William H. Boulton (2nd incumbency -- resigned Nov. 8)
• 1858 David Breakenridge Read (Nov. 11 - Dec. 31)
• 1859 - 1860 Sir Adam Wilson
• 1861 - 1863 John George Bowes (2nd incumbency)
• 1864 - 1866 Francis Henry Medcalf
• 1867 - 1868 James Edward Smith
• 1869 - 1870 Samuel Bickerton Harman
• 1871 - 1872 Joseph Sheard
• 1873 Alexander Manning
• 1874 - 1875 Francis Henry Medcalf (2nd incumbency)
• 1876 - 1878 Angus Morrison
• 1879 - 1880 James Beaty, Jr.
• 1881 - 1882 William Barclay McMurrich
• 1883 - 1884 Arthur Radcliffe Boswell
• 1885 Alexander Manning (2nd incumbency)
• 1886 - 1887 William Holmes Howland
• 1888 - 1891 Edward F. Clarke
• 1892 - 1893 Robert John Fleming
• 1894 - 1895 Warring Kennedy
• 1896 - 1897 Robert John Fleming (2nd incumbency -- resigned Aug. 5, 1897)
• 1897 - 1899 John Shaw (from Aug. 6, 1897)
• 1900 Ernest A. Macdonald
• 1901 - 1902 Oliver Aiken Howland
• 1903 - 1905 Thomas Urquhart
• 1906 - 1907 Emerson Coatsworth
• 1908 - 1909 Joseph Oliver
• 1910 - 1912 George Reginald Geary
• 1912 - 1914 Horatio Clarence Hocken
• 1915 - 1921 Thomas Langton Church
• 1922 - 1923 Charles A. Maguire
• 1924 William W. Hiltz
• 1925 - 1927 Thomas Foster
• 1928 - 1929 Samuel McBride
• 1930 Bert Sterling Wemp
• 1931 - 1934 William James Stewart
• 1935 James Simpson
• 1936 Samuel McBride (2nd incumbency - died Nov. 10)
• 1936 - 1937 William D. Robbins
• 1938 - 1940 Ralph C. Day
• 1941 - 1944 Frederick J. Conboy
• 1945 - 1948 Robert Hood Saunders
• 1948 - 1951 Hiram E. McCallum
• 1952 - 1954 Allan A. Lamport
• 1954 - 1955 Leslie Howard Saunders
• 1955 - 1962 Nathan Phillips
• 1963 Donald Dean Summerville (died Nov. 22)
• 1963 - 1966 Philip Gerald Givens
• 1966 - 1972 William Dennison
• 1972 - 1978 David Edward Crombie (resigned Aug., 1978)
• 1978 Fred Beavis (acting mayor, Sept. 1 - Dec. 1)
• 1978 - 1980 John Sewell
• 1980 - 1991 Art Eggleton
• 1991 - 1993 June Rowlands
• 1994 - 1997 Barbara Hall
• 1998 - 2003 Mel Lastman
• 2003 - David Miller