List of mayors, lord mayors and administrators of Sydney
List of mayors, lord mayors and administrators

List of mayors, lord mayors and administrators of Sydney

Section Title: List of mayors, lord mayors and administrators
Table Section Text: None

#	Officeholder	Party	Title	Term start	Term end	Time in office	Notes

1	Charles Windeyer	n/a	Mayor	12 August 1842	9 November 1842	89 days

2	John Hosking	9 November 1842	1843

3	James Robert Wilshire	1843	1844

4	George Allen	1845	1845

5	Henry McDermott	1846	1846

6	Thomas Broughton	1847	1847

7	Joshua Frey Josephson	1848	1848

8	Edward Flood	1849	1849

9	George Hill	1850	1850

10	William Edward Thurlow	1851	1852

11	Daniel Egan	1853	1853

Gilbert Elliot	Chief Commissioner	1854	1856

Frederick Orme Darval	Commissioner

John Rae

12	George Thornton	Mayor	1857	1857

13	John Williams	1858	1858

14	George Smith	1859	1859

15	James Murphy	1860	1860

16	John Sutherland	1861	1861

17	James Oatley	1862	1862

18	Thomas Spence	1863	1863

19	William Speer	1864	1864

20	John Woods	1865	1865

21	John Sutton	1866	1866

22	Charles Moore	1867	1869

23	Walter Renny	1869	1870

24	Michael Chapman	1871	1872

25	James Merriman	1873	1873

26	Stephen Styles Goold	1874	1874

27	Benjamin Palmer	1875	1876

–	James Merriman	1877	1878

28	Charles James Roberts	1879	1879

29	Robert Fowler	1880	1880

30	John Harris	1881	1883

31	John Hardie	1884	1884

32	Thomas Playfair	1 January 1885	31 December 1885	364 days

33	John Young	1 January 1886	31 December 1886	364 days

34	Alban Joseph Riley	Independent	1887	1887

35	John Harris	Independent	1888	1889

36	Sydney Burdekin	Independent	1890	1891

37	Sir William Patrick Manning	Independent	1891	1894

38	Samuel Edward Lees	Independent	1895	1895

39	Isaac Ellis Ives	Independent	1896	1897

40	Sir Matthew Harris	Independent	1898	1900

41	Sir James Graham	Independent	1901	31 December 1901

42	Thomas Hughes	Independent	1 January 1902	31 December 1902	364 days

Lord Mayor	1 January 1903	31 December 1903	364 days

–	Samuel Edward Lees	Independent	1 January 1904	31 December 1904	365 days

43	Allen Taylor	Independent	1 January 1905	31 December 1906	1 year, 364 days

–	Thomas Hughes	Independent	1 January 1906	31 December 1908	2 years, 365 days

–	Sir Allen Taylor	Independent	1 January 1909	1 May 1912	3 years, 121 days

44	George Thomas Clarke	Independent	1 May 1912	31 December 1912	244 days

45	Sir Arthur Cocks	Independent	1913	1913

46	Richard Watkins Richards	Independent	1 January 1914	31 December 1915

47	Richard Meagher	Labor	15 January 1916	31 December 1917

48	James Joynton Smith	Independent	1 January 1918	31 December 1918

49	John English	Labor	1 January 1919	8 March 1919

–	Sir Richard Watkins Richards	Independent	11 March 1919	12 March 1920

50	William Patrick Fitzgerald	Labor	1920	1920

51	William Lambert	1921	1921

52	William McElhone	Independent	1922	1922

53	David Gilpin	Civic Reform	1 January 1923	31 December 1924

54	Patrick Vincent Stokes	Labor	1 January 1925	31 December 1926	1 year, 364 days

55	John Harold Mostyn	1 January 1927	3 January 1928	1 year, 2 days

n/a	Edmund Patrick Fleming	n/a	Chief Commissioner	3 January 1928	3 October 1928	274 days

John Garlick	Commissioner	30 October 1928	301 days

Henry Edgar Morton	30 June 1930	2 years, 178 days

John Garlick	Chief Commissioner	30 October 1928	1 year, 243 days

Gordon Bennett	Commissioner

56	Ernest Marks	Civic Reform	Lord Mayor	1 July 1930	31 December 1930	183 days

57	Joseph Jackson	1 January 1931	31 December 1931	364 days

58	Sir Samuel Walder	1 January 1932	31 December 1932	365 days

59	Richard Hagon	Independent	1 January 1933	31 December 1933	364 days

60	Sir Alfred Parker	Civic Reform	1 January 1934	18 October 1935	1 year, 290 days

61	Arthur McElhone	Independent	22 October 1935	31 December 1935	70 days

62	Archibald Howie	Civic Reform	1 January 1936	31 December 1937	1 year, 364 days

63	Sir Norman Nock	1 January 1938	31 December 1939	1 year, 364 days

64	Stanley Crick	1 January 1940	31 December 1942	2 years, 364 days

65	Reg Bartley	1 January 1943	31 December 1944	1 year, 365 days

66	William Harding	1 January 1945	31 December 1945	364 days

–	Reg Bartley	1 January 1946	31 December 1948	2 years, 348 days

67	Ernest Charles O'Dea	Labor	1 January 1949	9 December 1952	3 years, 361 days

68	Pat Hills	9 December 1952	30 November 1956	3 years, 357 days

69	Harry Jensen	1 December 1956	3 December 1965	9 years, 2 days

70	John Armstrong	4 December 1965	13 November 1967	1 year, 344 days

n/a	Vernon Treatt	n/a	Chief Commissioner	14 November 1967	26 September 1969	1 year, 316 days

John Shaw	Deputy Chief Commissioner

William Pettingell	Commissioner

71	Sir Laurence Emmet McDermott	Civic Reform	Lord Mayor	7 October 1969	25 September 1972	2 years, 364 days

72	David Griffin	25 September 1972	24 September 1973	364 days

73	Sir Nicholas Shehadie	24 September 1973	26 September 1975	2 years, 2 days

74	Leo Port	26 September 1975	26 August 1978	2 years, 334 days

75	Nelson Meers	26 August 1978	19 September 1980	2 years, 24 days

76	Doug Sutherland	Labor	20 September 1980	26 March 1987	6 years, 187 days

n/a	Sir Eric Neal	n/a	Administrator	26 March 1987	6 April 1987	11 days

Chief Commissioner	7 April 1987	31 December 1988	1 year, 268 days

Sir Nicholas Shehadie	Deputy Chief Commissioner

Norman Oakes	Commissioner

77	Jeremy Bingham	Civic Reform	Lord Mayor	3 January 1989	18 September 1991	2 years, 258 days

78	Frank Sartor	Living Sydney Independents	23 September 1991	7 April 2003	11 years, 201 days

79	Lucy Turnbull	7 April 2003	6 February 2004	305 days

n/a	Tony Pooley	n/a	Commissioner	6 February 2004	27 March 2004	50 days

Garry Payne

Lucy Turnbull

80	Clover Moore	Clover Moore Independent Team	Lord Mayor	27 March 2004	Incumbent	15 years, 12 days

Sentence(s)

Hughes was elected as the last Mayor in January 1902, and was the first Lord Mayor of Sydney.

final_sentence: Hughes was elected as the last Mayor in January 1902, and was the first Lord Mayor of Sydney.