Robert Baldwin Sullivan

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Robert Baldwin Sullivan (24 May 1802 – 14 April 1853), was a Canadian lawyer, judge, and politician who became the 2nd Mayor of Toronto.

He was born in Bandon, County Cork in the Ireland in 1802 and came to York (Toronto) with his family in 1819. He studied law and was called to the bar in 1828. He moved to Vittoria, then the district town of the London District, and married in 1829, but returned to York after his wife's death in 1830. He remarried in 1833.

In 1835, he was elected to town council and was chosen to be mayor. He added a business like atmosphere to council with the official 'robes of office'. The council worked on matters like tax rates, grants and the removal of 'filth and nuisances from the city streets'.

On May 6, 1835, council's committee on draining and paving approved construction of the city's first main sewer on King Street into which all drains and sewers were to be connected.

In 1836, actions by new Lieutenant Governor Francis Bond Head triggered the resignation of the members of the Executive Council for the province. Sullivan accepted an appointment to the council. In the same year, he became the commissioner of crown lands. In 1839, he was appointed surveyor general for the province and became a member of the Legislative Council. Although criticized by many as a turncoat, he was an able administrator. He supported the union of Upper and Lower Canada and was appointed to the Legislative Council for the united provinces.

In 1848, he was appointed to the Queen's Bench.

He died in Toronto in 1853.

[edit] References

  • Russell, Victor Loring, Mayors of Toronto, Volume 1, 1834–1899, Boston Mills Press, 1982

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Political offices
Preceded by
William Lyon Mackenzie		 Mayor of Toronto
1835		 Succeeded by
Thomas David Morrison
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Mayors of Toronto
William Lyon Mackenzie • Robert Baldwin Sullivan • Thomas David Morrison • George Gurnett • John Powell • George Monro • Henry Sherwood • William Henry Boulton • George Gurnett (again) • John George Bowes • Joshua George Beard • George William Allan • John Beverley Robinson • John Hutchison • William Henry Boulton (again) • David Breakenridge Read • Adam Wilson • John George Bowes (again) • Francis Henry Medcalf • James Edward Smith • Samuel Bickerton Harman • Joseph Sheard • Alexander Manning • Francis Henry Medcalf (again) • Angus Morrison • James Beaty • William Barclay McMurrich • Arthur Radcliffe Boswell • Alexander Manning (again) • William Holmes Howland • Edward Frederick Clarke • Robert John Fleming • Warring Kennedy • Robert John Fleming (again) • John Shaw • Ernest A. Macdonald • Oliver Aiken Howland • Thomas Urquhart • Emerson Coatsworth • Joseph Oliver • George Reginald Geary • Horatio Clarence Hocken • Thomas Langton Church • Charles A. Maguire • William W. Hiltz • Thomas Foster • Samuel McBride • Bert Wemp • William James Stewart • James Simpson • Samuel McBride (again) • William D. Robbins • Ralph Day • Frederick J. Conboy • Robert Hood Saunders • Hiram E. McCallum • Allan A. Lamport • Leslie Howard Saunders • Nathan Phillips • Donald Dean Summerville • Philip Givens • William Dennison • David Crombie • Fred Beavis • John Sewell • Art Eggleton • June Rowlands • Barbara Hall • Mel Lastman • David Miller


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