caption death_date death_place predecessor birth_place successor imagesize party office birth_date term_start spouse image article_title term_end name
john bower lewis 24 january 1874 22px ottawa john scott henry j. friel paris , france robert hervey edward mcgillivray 150 conservative party of canada 2nd mayor of bytown 1st mayor of ottawa 18 march 1817 1848 1855 anna 1843 -rrb- ; elizabeth susan wilson -lrb- 1856 -rrb- eccles -lrb- 1840 -rrb- ; helen street -lrb- johnbowerlewis.jpg john bower lewis
 1849 1857 john bower lewis
john bower lewis

john bower lewis , qc -lrb- march 18 , 1817 -- january 24 , 1874 -rrb- was the second mayor of bytown in 1848 , the first mayor of ottawa from 1855 to 1857 , and a member of the 2nd canadian parliament from 1872 to 1873 .
he was born in paris , france in 1817 and came to canada with his family in 1820 .
he studied law in toronto , was admitted to the bar in 1839 , and became a queen 's counsel in 1867 .
he was elected to the first council for bytown in 1847 and became mayor in 1848 .
after bytown was renamed to ottawa in 1854 , he became its first mayor .
he was police commissioner for the city in 1863 .
in 1872 , he was elected to the house of commons in the two-member riding of ottawa city , but resigned in 1873 due to the pacific scandal .
he died in ottawa in 1874 ; he was the city solicitor and was also campaigning for reelection to the house of commons at the time of his death .
