page_title: Shire of Mareeba
section_title: Chairmen and mayors
hierarchical_section_title: Shire of Mareeba / Chairmen and mayors
caption_attribution_description: English: George J. Evenden. The late Mr. G. J. Evenden who has been Chairman of the Woothakata Shire Council for 20 years, the last 17 years being consecutive. The deceased gentleman was in his 79th year, and was one of the oldest and most respected residents in mining districts. His connection with local government was an unique one, his continuous record as Chariman of the local body at Thornborough constituting a record for Queensland. (Description supplied with photograph).
context_page_description: The Shire of Mareeba is a local government area at the base of Cape York Peninsula in Far North Queensland, inland from Cairns. The shire, administered from the town of Mareeba, covered an area of 53,491 square kilometres, and existed as a local government entity from 1879 until 2008, when it amalgamated with several councils in the Atherton Tableland area to become the Tablelands Region.
  On 20 March 2013, Mareeba residents voted in favour of a proposal to reverse the amalgamation and to re-establish Mareeba Shire. The new Mareeba Shire was re-established on 1 January 2014.
context_section_description: In early years the elected councillors chose one among them to the chairman on an annual basis.
  The following are the chairmen of the Woothakata Division and Shire of Woothakata:
  1890–1907: George Jonathan Evenden 
  1920: James Harris
  From 1921, chairmen of shires were elected by the voters for a period of 3 years.
  August 1921– : Ernest Albert Atherton
  1927, 1929, 1931: George Henry O'Donnell
  The following are the chairmen in the first incarnation of Shire of Mareeba:
  1933–1935, –December 1939: William Gardner 
  December 1939– : J. M. Brown
  1950: J. M. Brown 
  1973–1976: Martin Tenni, Member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly for Barron River
  The following are the mayors in the current incarnation of Shire of Mareeba:
  2014–2020: Tom Gilmore, former Member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly for Tablelands 
  2020–present : Angela Toppin
caption: George J. Evenden
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