death_date predecessor successor religion office birth_date term_start article_title term_end name occupation
october 5 , 1966 joe fabbro grace hartman jewish mayor of sudbury , ontario august 25 , 1906 january max silverman
 october 5 , 1966 max silverman hockey manager
max silverman

max silverman -lrb- august 25 , 1906 -- october 5 , 1966 -rrb- was a canadian ice hockey manager and politician .
as president and general manager of the sudbury wolves , silverman and coach samuel rothschild led the team to victory in the 1932 memorial cup , the 1935 richardson cup and the 1938 world ice hockey championships .
the team also competed in the 1949 world ice hockey championships , but lost to the czechoslovakian team .
silverman sold the team for $ 17,500 in 1956 , and pursued a new career in municipal politics in sudbury .
he served as the city 's deputy mayor from 1962 to 1964 , and defeated joe fabbro for the mayoralty in the municipal election of december 1965 .
while serving as mayor , he sat on a committee of mayors appointed to study the feasibility of northern ontario separating from ontario to form a new province , alongside g. w. maybury of kapuskasing , ernest reid of fort william , leo del villano of timmins , merle dickerson of north bay and leo foucault of espanola .
he died on october 5 , 1966 , after less than a year in office .
