Leslie O'Shaughnessy
Leslie O'Shaughnessy is a Canadian politician, who was elected mayor of Cornwall, Ontario in the 2014 municipal election.[1]
Leslie O'Shaughnessy | |
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Mayor of Cornwall, Ontario | |
In office December 1, 2014 – December 1, 2018 | |
Preceded by | Bob Kilger |
Succeeded by | Bernadette Clement |
Personal details | |
Born | Cornwall, Ontario, Canada |
Born in Cornwall, O'Shaughnessy previously served as reeve of the nearby township of Charlottenburg in the 1990s,[1] and ran as a Progressive Conservative Party of Canada candidate for Stormont—Dundas in the 1997 federal election. He later moved back to Cornwall, and was elected to Cornwall City Council as a city councillor in 2003. He ran for mayor in the 2006 municipal election, but was not elected.[1]
He ran again in the 2010 municipal election and was re-elected as a city councillor, but resigned his seat in 2012 citing concerns about the council's commitment to accountability and transparency.[2][3] In the 2014 election, he defeated incumbent mayor Bob Kilger.[1][4]
References
- "Cornwall chooses change" Archived 2014-11-05 at the Wayback Machine. Cornwall Standard Freeholder, October 27, 2014.
- "Cornwall votes: One more mayoral candidate as O'Shaughnessy makes it three". Cornwall Standard Freeholder, July 3, 2014.
- "Leslie O'Shaughnessy Finally Explains Why He Resigned from Kilger Council in Cornwall Ontario". The Cornwall Free News. March 18, 2013. Retrieved May 19, 2017.
- John R. Bolton "All the best to Leslie O'Shaughnessy - Cornwall has lost a good Councillor", ourhometown.ca; accessed May 18, 2017.