List of mayors of Botany and Botany Bay

People who served as the mayor of the Municipality of Botany and the City of Botany Bay are:

This section is an excerpt from City of Botany Bay § Mayors.[edit]

Seal of the Municipality of Botany, from 1938 Jubilee History, depicts the landing of Captain James Cook at Botany Bay in 1770. The Latin motto, Sicut Patribus Sit Deus Nobis, translates to "God be with us as He was with our fathers".

Mayor		Party	Term	Notes
	James John Macfadyen	Independent	20 August 1888 – 13 February 1890	^[1]^[2]
	John E. Chant	Independent	13 February 1890 – 14 February 1891	^[3]
	Charles R. Swinbourne	Independent	14 February 1891 – 10 February 1893	^[4]^[5]
	Francis John Luland	Independent	10 February 1893 – 14 February 1895	^[6]^[7]
	James John Macfadyen	Independent	14 February 1895 – 13 February 1896	^[8]
	Joseph Pemberton	Independent	13 February 1896 – 9 February 1897	^[9]
	Joshua Wiggins	Independent	9 February 1897 – 8 February 1898	^[10]
	Francis Hambly	Independent	8 February 1898 – 10 February 1900	^[11]^[12]^[13]
	Oscar William Nilson	Independent	10 February 1900 – 16 February 1901	^[14]
	William Stephen	Independent	16 February 1901 – 10 February 1902	^[15]
	Frederick Page	Independent	10 February 1902 – 12 February 1903	^[16]
	Francis John Luland	Independent	12 February 1903 – 20 February 1905	^[17]^[18]^[19]
	Clement Frederick Etherden	Independent	20 February 1905 – February 1909	^[20]^[21]^[22]
	Frederick Anderson	Independent	February 1909 – 11 February 1910	^[23]
	John Herford	Independent	11 February 1910 – 9 February 1911	^[24]
	William Hale	Independent	9 February 1911 – 12 February 1913	^[25]^[26]
	Oscar William Nilson	Independent	12 February 1913 – 10 February 1914	^[27]^[28]
	William David Stephen	Independent	10 February 1914 – 10 February 1915	^[29]
	James Facer Gray Siddins	Independent	10 February 1915 – 17 February 1916	^[30]
	William David Stephen	Independent	17 February 1916 – February 1919	^[31]^[32]^[33]
	Harold Hickson	Independent	February 1919 – December 1920	^[34]
	William David Stephen	Independent	December 1920 – December 1922	^[35]^[36]
	John Herford	Independent	December 1922 – December 1924	^[37]^[38]^[39]
	James Facer Gray Siddins	Independent	December 1924 – 1 December 1927	^[40]^[41]^[42]^[43]
	Frederick Page	Independent	1 December 1927 – December 1928	^[44]
	George Frederick Anderson	Independent	December 1928 – December 1930	^[45]
	Frederick James Kerr	Independent	December 1930 – December 1932	^[46]^[47]
	William Herford	Independent	December 1932 – December 1937	^[48]^[49]^[50]^[51]^[52]^[53]^[54]
	George Frederick Anderson	Independent	December 1937 – 1 December 1938	^[55]
	Garnet Arthur Jackson	Labor	1 December 1938 – 4 December 1939	^[56]
	Cyril Henry Edward Wall	Labor	4 December 1939 – December 1940	^[57]
	Garnet Arthur Jackson	Labor	December 1940 – December 1941	^[58]
	George Valentine Arthur	Labor	December 1941 – December 1942
	John James Chalmers	Labor	December 1942 – December 1943	^[59]
	John Francis McCarthy	Labor	December 1943 – December 1944	^[60]
	Cecil Dengate Hensley	Labor	December 1944 – December 1945	^[61]^[62]
	James Sydney Greenfield	Labor	December 1945 – December 1946	^[63]
	Thomas Henry Albert Tierney	Labor	December 1946 – December 1948	^[64]
	Francis Bernard Joyce	Labor	December 1948 – December 1953	^[65]^[66]^[67]
	John Samuel Elphick	Labor	December 1953 – December 1954	^[68]
	Alexander McPherson	Labor	December 1954 – December 1956	^[69]
	John Samuel Elphick	Labor	December 1956 – December 1962	^[70]
	Gladstone Sparks		December 1963 – December 1964	^[71]
	Alfred P. P. Lever		December 1964 – December 1965	^[70]
	George R. Hanna		December 1965 – December 1966	^[70]
	James Slattery		December 1966 – September 1968	^[70]
	John Samuel Elphick	Labor	September 1968 – September 1969	^[70]
	James Slattery		September 1969 – September 1970	^[70]
	Alfred P. P. Lever		September 1970 – September 1971	^[70]
	James Tobin	Labor	September 1971 – September 1972	^[70]
	John Samuel Elphick	Labor	September 1972 – September 1974	^[70]
	Robert Mann	Labor	September 1974 – September 1975	^[70]
	James Tobin	Labor	September 1975 – September 1976	^[70]
	Robert Mann	Labor	September 1976 – September 1977	^[70]
	James Tobin	Labor	September 1977 – September 1980	^[70]
	Robert Mann	Labor	September 1980 – September 1981	^[70]
	Ron Hoenig	Labor	September 1981 – 8 September 2012	^[70]
	Ben Keneally	Labor	8 September 2012 – 12 May 2016	^[72]

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