List of mayors of Auburn, New South Wales

This is a list of mayors of the City of Auburn, a former a local government area of New South Wales, Australia, which disbanded in 2016.

Jack Lang, Premier of New South Wales (1925–1927, 1930–1932), served as Mayor of Auburn in 1909–1911.

The final mayor was Le Lam, who was elected into the position by other councillors on 23 September 2015.

Mayors

1892−2016

No.	Portrait	Mayor	Party	Term start	Term end
1		George Wright	Independent	16 April 1892[1]	10 May 1893[2]
2		James Douglas Ritchie	Independent	10 May 1893[3]	14 February 1895[4][5]
3		Thomas Taylor	Independent	14 February 1895	11 February 1896[6]
4		Lancelot Tregunnel Roper	Independent	11 February 1896	9 February 1897[7]
5		Charles Dyer	Independent	9 February 1897	15 February 1899[8][9]
6		John Rose Hutchinson Gibbons	Independent	15 February 1899	15 February 1901[10][11]
(3)		Thomas Taylor	Independent	15 February 1901[12][13]	4 July 1904[14][15][16]
7		Thomas Edwin Farrar	Independent	8 July 1904[17]	16 February 1906[18]
(5)		Charles Dyer	Independent	16 February 1906[19]	2 May 1907[20]
8		John David Edward Lambeth	Independent	2 May 1907	7 February 1908[21][22]
9		Francis Henry Furnival	Independent	7 February 1908[23]	19 February 1909[24]
10		Jack Lang	Labor	19 February 1909	10 February 1911[25][26][27]
11		John Hunter	Independent	10 February 1911	12 February 1912[28]
12		George Ritchie	Independent	12 February 1912	9 February 1914[29][30]
13		William Johnson	Labor	9 February 1914[31][32][33]	3 February 1916[34][35][36]
14		Tom Cheetham	Independent	3 February 1916	5 February 1918[37][38]
15		Robert Lightfoot	Independent	5 February 1918	5 February 1920[39][40][41]
(14)		Tom Cheetham	Independent	5 February 1920	7 December 1922[42][43]
(12)		George Ritchie	Independent	7 December 1922	December 1924[44][45]
16		George Gollan	Independent	December 1924	20 December 1926[46][47]
17		Albert Thomas Briggs	Municipal Progressive Party	20 December 1926[48][49]	6 January 1932[50][51][52]
(14)		Tom Cheetham	Municipal Progressive Party	6 January 1932[53]	10 December 1934[54][55]
18		William Henry Lamb	Labor	10 December 1934	16 December 1935[56]
19		Peter Herlihy	Labor	16 December 1935	21 December 1936[57]
20		James Upton	Labor	21 December 1936	13 December 1937[58]
21		Gordon Andrew Byrne	Labor	13 December 1937	19 December 1938[59]
22		Bernard John Kelly	Labor	19 December 1938	18 December 1939[60]
23		Frederick Charles Schindler	Labor	18 December 1939	16 December 1940[61]
24		Norman John Keile	Labor (N-C)	16 December 1940	December 1941[62]
25		Thomas Vernon Ryan	Labor	December 1941	December 1942[63]
(22)		Bernard John Kelly	Labor	December 1942	20 December 1943[64]
26		William Eric Cottee	Labor	20 December 1943	7 December 1944[65]
27		Alexander Kerr	Independent	7 December 1944	15 December 1947[66][67][68]
28		Norman Grant Crook	Independent	15 December 1947	December 1950[69][70][71]
(27)		Alexander Kerr	Independent	December 1950	December 1951[72][73]
29		Frank Chadwick	Independent	December 1951	December 1953[74][75]
30		Ernest Norman	Independent	December 1953	15 January 1958[76][77][78]
31		Patrick McLaughlin	Labor	15 January 1958	December 1959[79]
32		Stanley Lewis Hedges	Independent	December 1959	29 September 1971[80]
33		C. G. Noble	Independent	29 September 1971	26 September 1973
34		Terry Keegan	Independent	26 September 1973	1 October 1974
(32)		Stanley Lewis Hedges	Independent	1 October 1974	17 September 1975
(34)		Terry Keegan	Independent	17 September 1975	28 September 1988
35		George J. Dunn	Independent	28 September 1988	26 September 1991
(32)		Stanley Lewis Hedges	Independent	26 September 1991	September 1994
36		William J. Kain	Independent	September 1994	September 1995
37		Patrick Curtin	Labor	September 1995	September 1998
(34)		Terry Keegan	Independent	September 1998	September 1999
38		Le Lam	Unity	September 1999	September 2000
39		Christopher Cassidy	Labor	September 2000	September 2001
40		Michael Tadros	Independent	September 2001	19 April 2004
(39)		Christopher Cassidy	Labor	19 April 2004	30 September 2005
(37)		Patrick Curtin	Labor	30 September 2005	September 2006
(38)		Le Lam	Unity	September 2006	September 2008
41		Irene Simms	Residents Action Group	September 2008	September 2009
42		Hicham Zraika	Labor	September 2009	September 2010
43		Ronney Oueik	Liberal	September 2010	September 2012
44		Ned Attie	Liberal	September 2012	September 2013
45		Hicham Zraika	Labor	September 2013	September 2014
(43)		Ronney Oueik	Liberal	September 2014	23 September 2015
(38)		Le Lam	Independent	23 September 2015	10 February 2016[81]
N/A		Viv May (Administrator)	10 February 2016	12 May 2016[82]