- Fremantle Town Trust
- Town of Fremantle
- Municipality of Fremantle
- City of Fremantle
- References
{{Use dmy dates|date=November 2016}}{{Use Australian English|date=November 2016}}Fremantle, Western Australia was initially incorporated as a Town Trust with limited powers on 17 April 1848. The Municipal Institutions Act 1871 empanelled the Town Council with a Mayor, and it was made a Municipal Council in 1883. On 3 June 1929, Fremantle was declared a city — Western Australia's second after Perth, which was declared in 1856. Fremantle Town TrustSummary of Members of the Fremantle Town Trust, 1848-1871. Compiled from letters to the Colonial Secretary up to 1856, and thereafter from the Minutes of the Fremantle Town Trust. | Mayor | Term |
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| Capt. Daniel Scott | 1848–1851 | | J.W. Davey | 1851–1852 | | Capt. Daniel Scott | 1853–1854 | | Thomas Carter | 1855 | | Capt. Daniel Scott | 1856–1858 | | Charles Alexander Manning | 1859–1867 | | Edward Newman | 1868–1869 | | William Silas Pearse | 1870–1871 |
Town of FremantleSummary of Office-bearers of the Fremantle Town Council. Compiled from the Minutes of the Fremantle Town Council which are intact from 1871-1873 | Mayor | Term |
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| William Silas Pearse | 1871–1872 | | J. Thomas | 1873 | | William Marmion | 1874 | | J. Thomas | 1875 | | Henry Maxwell Lefroy | 1876 | | James Manning | 1877[1] | | Edward Higham | 1878–1880 | | Elias Solomon | 1881 | | Edward Higham | 1882 | | Barrington Wood | 1883 |
Municipality of FremantleSummary of Members of the Fremantle Municipal Council 1883-1929. Compiled from the Minutes of the Fremantle Municipal Council. | Mayor | Term | Notes |
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| Barrington Clarke Wood | 1883–1885 | | Daniel Keen Congdon | 1886–1888 | | Elias Solomon | 1889–1891 | Also member for South Fremantle 1892–1901;
Federal member for Fremantle (Free Trade) 1901–1903 | | William Frederick Samson | 1892–1893 | Uncle of Sir Frederick Samson | | Daniel Keen Congdon | 1894 | | George Alfred Davies | 1895 | Brother of Edward William Davies (below) | | Elias Solomon | 1896–1898 | | James McHenry Clark | 1899 | | Elias Solomon | 1900–1901 | | Edward William Davies | 1901 | Removed on the grounds of insanity; died 1904; brother of George Davies (above) | | Lawrence Alexander | 1901–1902 | | Tom Smith | 1903 | | Frank Cadd | 1904–1905 | | Michael Samson | 1905–1907 | Father of Frederick Samson, died in office. | | William Murphy | 1907–1909 | | Edward Henry Fothergill | 1909–1910 | | Joseph Holmes | 1911 | Elected but did not occupy the chair | | Frederick James McLaren | 1912–1914 | | William Ernest Wray | 1914–1918 | | William Montgomery | 1919 | | Frank Gibson | 1919–1923 | | John Cooke | 1924–1926 | | Frank Gibson | 1927–1929 |
City of FremantleSummary of Members of the Fremantle City Council, 1929-2011. | Mayor | Term | Notes |
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| Frank Gibson | 1929–1951 | (Sir Frank from 1948) | | Frederick Samson | 1951–1972 | (Sir Frederick from 1962) Grandson of Lionel Samson, early settler | | Bill McKenzie | 1972–1984 | | John Cattalini | 1984–1994 | | Jenny Archibald | 1994–1996 | | Richard Utting | 1997–2001 | | Peter Tagliaferri | 2001–2009 | | Brad Pettitt | 2009–present |
References1. ^{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article2977134 |title=FREMANTLE TOWN COUNCIL. |newspaper=The Western Australian Times |issue=257 |location=Western Australia |date=20 February 1877 |accessdate=13 July 2017 |page=2 |via=National Library of Australia}}
- {{cite book |last=Ewers |first=J. K. |date=1971 |title=The Western Gateway: A history of Fremantle |page=213-217 }}
- {{cite journal |last1=Martyr |first1=P |last2=Janca |first2=A |date=December 2011 |title=A mad mayor of Fremantle: the mysterious illness of Edward Davies |journal=Australasian Psychiatry |volume=19 |issue=6 |pages=479–483 |doi=10.3109/10398562.2011.620958}}
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