Leslie O'Shaughnessy

Leslie O'Shaughnessy
Mayor of Cornwall, Ontario
Assumed office
December 1, 2014
Preceded by Bob Kilger
Personal details
Born Cornwall, Ontario, Canada

Leslie O'Shaughnessy is a Canadian politician, who was elected mayor of Cornwall, Ontario in the 2014 municipal election.[1]

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

  1. 1 2 3 4 "Cornwall chooses change". Cornwall Standard Freeholder, October 27, 2014.
  2. ↑ "Cornwall votes: One more mayoral candidate as O'Shaughnessy makes it three". Cornwall Standard Freeholder, July 3, 2014.
  3. ↑ "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.
  4. ↑ John R. Bolton "All the best to Leslie O'Shaughnessy - Cornwall has lost a good Councillor", ourhometown.ca; accessed May 18, 2017.
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