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List of mayors of Bundaberg

Mayor of Bundaberg
Incumbent Jack Dempsey since 19 March 2016
Inaugural holder	E. B. Jeune
Formation	1880

This is a list of mayors of the Bundaberg Region (2008–present) and City of Bundaberg in Queensland, Australia, and its predecessors.

Bundaberg was originally established as a Municipality on 22 April 1881, on land previously managed by the Barolin Divisional Board. With the passage of the Local Authorities Act 1902, Bundaberg became a Town on 31 March 1903, and on 22 November 1913, it was accorded City status.^[1]

Barolin Divisional Board

E. B. Jeune (1880)

Municipality of Bundaberg

Richard Ruddell (1881)
Walter Adams (1882, 1883)
Capt. William Edward Curtis (1884)
Andrew M. Goodwin (1885)
Michael Duffy (1886)
Daniel McConville (1887)
Michael Duffy (1888)
John Rowland (1888, 1889)
Andrew M. Goodwin (1890)
James C. Walker (1891)
John Rowland (1892)
Capt. William Edward Curtis (1893)
Daniel McConville (1894, 1895)
John F. Boreham (1896)
Patrick Duffy (1897)
Andrew Dunne (1898)
Robert Totten (1899)
Frederick Colman (1900)
Gustav Steindl (1901)
Richard Ruddell (1902)

Town of Bundaberg

William F. Marshall (1903)
John Wyper (1904)
Robert McMannie (1905)
Michael Duffy (1906) ^[2]
Albert E. Avenell (1907)
Richard Ruddell (1908)
John Redmond (1909)
Peter Neilson (1910)
Alexander Stevenson (1911)
Lewis Holden Maynard (1912)
William Dunn (1913)

City of Bundaberg

William Dunn (1913)
Rev. Father J. Mimnagh (1914)
Elwyn Thomas Steptoe (1915, 1916)
Richard Ruddell (1917)
William Dunn (1918)
Martin Dunn (1919)
William Gavegan (1920–1923)
Richard G. Curtis (1924) ^[3]
William S. P. Gavegan (1925, 1926) (Nationalist)^[4]
Bernard McLean (1927–1936) (Labor)
Frederick Harold Buss (1936–1958)
Clifford John Nielsen (1958–1984)
Allan Stewart (1984–1988)
Jeff Boreham (1988–1991)
Nita Cunningham (1991–1998)
Kay McDuff (1998–2008)

Bundaberg Region

Lorraine Pyefinch (2008–2013)
Mal Forman (2013 - 2016)
Jack Dempsey (2016 - present)

References

^ Queensland Government Gazette, Vol. CL, 22 November 1913, p.1422.
^ "Queensland Mayors and Shire Chairmen". The Queenslander (Brisbane, Qld. : 1866 - 1939). Brisbane, Qld.: National Library of Australia. 24 February 1906. p. 22. Retrieved 1 October 2015.
^ Australian History Publishing Co (1936), Queensland and Queenslanders : incorporating 'Prominent Queenslanders', Australian History Publishing Co, p. 87, retrieved 1 October 2015 — available online Archived 16 February 2017 at the Wayback Machine
^ Pugh, Theophilus Parsons (1927). Pugh's Almanac for 1927. Retrieved 13 June 2014.