Leslie_O'Shaughnessy

Leslie O'Shaughnessy

Leslie O'Shaughnessy

Canadian politician and mayor of Cornwall, Ontario

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

Quick Facts Mayor of Cornwall, Ontario, Preceded by ...

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] O'Shaughnessy ran for election again in 2018, but finished third behind the winner Bernadette Clement.[5]

He died on August 14 2023 of cancer.[6]

References

  1. [1]
    "Cornwall chooses change" Archived 2014-11-05 at the Wayback Machine. Cornwall Standard Freeholder, October 27, 2014.
  2. [2]
    "Cornwall votes: One more mayoral candidate as O'Shaughnessy makes it three". Cornwall Standard Freeholder, July 3, 2014.
  3. [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. [4]
    John R. Bolton "All the best to Leslie O'Shaughnessy - Cornwall has lost a good Councillor", ourhometown.ca; accessed May 18, 2017.
  5. [5]
    "2018 City of Cornwall Election: Mayor" (PDF). City of Cornwall, Ontario. Retrieved December 23, 2021.
  6. [6]
    Hambleton, Todd (2023-08-15). "Former Cornwall Mayor Leslie O'Shaughnessy passes away". Cornwall Standard-Freeholder. Retrieved 2023-08-15.


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