List of mayors of Kingston, Ontario


This is a list of mayors of Kingston, Ontario.
In OfficeMayorBorn/DiedNotes
1838Thomas KirkpatrickFirst mayor after Kingston becomes Town. First member of parliament for Frontenac.
1839Henry CassadayDied in office.
1839-1840James Sampson
1841-1843John Counter
1844James Sampson
1844-1845Thomas Weeks Robison
1846Robert McLeanDisappeared after being ousted from office due to amalgamation.
1846John CounterFirst mayor after incorporation as city.
1847Thomas Kirkpatrick
1848William Ford Jr.
1849Francis Manning Hill
1850John Counter
1851Francis Manning Hill
1852-53John Counter
1854John Flanigan
1855John Counter
1855-1856Overton Smith Gildersleeve
1857George Davidson
1858John Flanigan
1859-1860Orlando Sampson Strange
1861-62Overton Smith Gildersleeve
1863-1865John CreightonElected by acclamation 1864, 1865
1866-1868John Breden
1869-1870William Robinson
1871Archibald Livingston
1872Samuel Trangott Drennan
1873Henry Cunningham
1874-1875Michael Sullivan
1876Byron M. Britton
1877John McKelvey
1878John McIntyre
1879Charles Fuller GildersleeveAlso first president of the Kingston and Pembroke Railway c1871-c1900.
1880Robert John Carson
1881Edward John Barker PenseAlso the owner of the newspaper, the Daily British Whig.
1882John Gaskin
1883Charles Livingston Sr.
1884Dr. James McCammon
1885Edward Handley Smythe
1886John Lanyon Whiting
1887John Carson
1888-1889James Duncan Thompson
1890-1891William Melville Drennan
1892Donald M. McIntyre
1893Neil Currie Polson
1894Dr. John Herald
1895Clark William Wright
1896Robert Elliott
1897John S. Skinner
1898Charles Livingston Jr.Son of Charles Livingston Sr.
1899Dr. Edward Ryan
1900James Arnott Minnes
1901Robert Edwin Kent
1902John Morgan Shaw
1903-1904Dr. John Howatt Bell
1905Robert Newton Frederick McFarlane
1906-1907John McDonald MowatDied overseas during World War I.
1908Dr. Arthur Edward RossRepresented Kingston as MLA and MP.
1909-1910Daniel Couper
1911Christopher L. Graham
1912Franklin John Hoag
1913Timothy John Rigney
1914Robert Dundas Sutherland
1915Abraham Shaw
1916Dr. Alexander White Richardson
1917-1918John McKane Hughes
1919Henry Wallace Newman
1920-1921Hugh Collamer Nickle
1922Samuel S. Corbet
1923-1926Thomas Bryant Angrove
1927Havelock Ford Price
1928-1930William H. Craig
1931-1932George Clark WrightSon of Clark William Wright
1933Dr. Bruce Hopkins
1934William P. Peters
1935John Clifford Reynolds
1936George Hanson
1937Charles P. Dalton
1938-1943Dr. Harry A. Stewart
1944-1945Cecil Leroy Boyd
1946-1948Major James Stuart CrawfordIn a meeting held September 10, 1943, Kingston's mayor, Major J. Stuart Crawford, was unanimously elected first president of the newly-established Hockey Hall of Fame.
1948-1952Clifford Austin Curtis
1953-1956George Clark WrightDied while completing last term in office.
1956Russell E. McCullough
1957-1958Frank P. Boyce
1959-1964William Thomas Mills
1965-1968Robert A. Fray
1969-1972Ernest Valorie Swain
1973-1976George Nicholas Speal
1977-1979Ken KeyesRepresented Kingston as MPP.
1980-1988John GerretsenRepresented Kingston as MPP.
1988-1993Helen CooperProgressive Conservative candidate for the House of Commons in 1997. Chair of the Ontario Municipal Board from 1993 to 1996
1993-1994Ken Matthews
1994-2000Gary BennettOntario Progressive Conservative Party candidate in Kingston and the Islands for the 2018 and 2022 provincial elections
2000-2003Isabel TurnerReeve of Kingston Township for 12 years until it was amalgamated into the City of Kingston in 2000
2003-2010Harvey RosenAfter he was mayor, unsuccessfully sought federal and provincial Liberal nominations.
2010-2014Mark GerretsenSon of former mayor John Gerretsen, Represented Kingston as MP
2014-Bryan Paterson