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Launceston has had 75 mayors since it was proclaimed a municipality. This is approximately one every two years since the first mayor, Alderman William Stammers Button was elected in 1853.
The Mayors of Launceston since 1853
There have been 75 mayors of Launceston since 1853:
1853-56 William Stammers Button
1857-61 Henry Dowling
1862 John Fawns
1863 William Hart
1864 Abraham Barrett
1865-66 Ayde Douglas
1867-68 John Scott
1869 William Hart
1870 Alexander Webster
1871-72 Alfred Harrap
1873-74 John Murphy
1875-77 Alfred Harrap
1878-79 William Turner
1880-82 Ayde Douglas
1883 Alfred Harrap
1884 Landon Fairthorne
1885 Henry Button
1886 Peter Barrett
1887 Robert Carter
1888 Bernard P. Farrelly
1889 David Scott
1890-92 Samuel John Sutton
1893 Henry Jennings Dean
1894 Robert Henry Price
1895 Walter Henry Ferrall
1896 Peter McCrackan
1897 Robert James Sadler
1898 Samuel John Sutton
1899-1900 Edward Henry Panton
1901-02 Frederick Kirk Fairthorne
1903 David Storrer
1904-05 James William Pepper
1906 Charles Russen
1907-08 Patrick Boland
1909 William Charles Wilson
1910-11 William Claude Oldham
1912 George Paton
1913 George Hills
1914 Richard Gee
1915-16 Frank Percy Hart
1917-18 William Coogan
1919-20 George Shields
1921-22 Albert William Monds
1923 George Shields
1924 Claude Ernest Weymouth James
1925 John Featherstone Ockerby
1926 Alexander Arthur Evans
1927-28 Howard Charles Linney Barber
1929-30 Robert Martin Osborne
1931 Frank Boatwright
1932 Albert William Monds
1933-34 Allen W. Hollingsworth
1935-36 Eric Ernest von Bibra
1937 Frank Warland Browne
1938-39 Albert Edwin Wyett
1939 John Featherstone Ockerby
1940-41 Frank Boatwright
1942-43 Desmond Tasman Oldham
1944-45 William Clark
1946 Allen W. Hollingsworth
1947 Desmond Tasman Oldham
1948-49 Norman Henry Denham Henty
1950 Allen W. Hollingsworth
1951-52 Sinclair Jeavons Thyne
1953-54 Hedley George Pitt
1955 Brian Marshall Thornley
1956-57 Dorothy Edna Annie Edwards
1958-59 James Sinclair Taylor McGowen
1960-61 Frederick James Clark White
1962-63 William Hector Maxwell Fry
1964-65 Reginald John David Turnbull
1966-67 Clarence Gandy Pryor
1968-69 Frank Bernard King
1970-71 Richard Martin Green
1972-73 Harry Medcalf Fisher
1974-75 David Vincent Gunn
1976-77 Thomas Dudley Room
1978-79 Maxwell George Cleaver
1980-81 Barbara Tweed Payne
1982-83 Reginald Blaydon Walker
1983-85 Donald George Wing
1985 Commissioner of Launceston, T W Deutchmann, following amalgamation
1985-86 Donald George Wing
1987-89 Ananias (Jimmy) Tsinoglou
1990-92 Graeme Wesley Beams
1993-96 Anthony (Tony) Clarence Peck
1996-2001 John Baden Lees
2001-2002 Annette Waddle, Acting Mayor, following the death of Mayor Lees
2002-2005 Janie Dickenson
2005-2007 Ivan Dean
2007-present Albert van Zetten
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