Leslie O'Shaughnessy (April 13, 1954 – August 14, 2023) was a Canadian politician, who was elected mayor of

Cornwall, Ontario Cornwall is a city in Eastern Ontario, Canada, situated where the provinces of Central Canada, Ontario and Quebec and the U.S. state of New York (state), New York converge. It is Ontario's easternmost city. Although it is the seat of the United ...

in the 2014 municipal election."Cornwall chooses change"
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'', October 27, 2014. Born in Cornwall, O'Shaughnessy previously served as reeve of the nearby township of

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in the 1990s, and ran as a

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candidate for Stormont—Dundas in the 1997 federal election. He later moved back to Cornwall, and was elected to

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as a city councillor in 2003. He ran for mayor in the 2006 municipal election, but was not elected. 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. In the 2014 election, he defeated incumbent mayor

Bob Kilger Robert Peter Paul Kilger King's Privy Council for Canada, PC (June 29, 1944 – November 29, 2021) was a Canadian politician. Born in Cornwall, Ontario, Kilger was the former Liberal Party of Canada, Liberal member of Parliament for the Cornwal ...

. O'Shaughnessy ran for election again in 2018, but finished third behind the winner

Bernadette Clement Bernadette Clement (born May 17, 1965) is a Canadian politician, who was appointed to the Canadian Senate by Liberal prime minister Justin Trudeau on June 22, 2021. She was previously mayor of Cornwall, Ontario, having been elected in the 2018 ...

. He died on August 14, 2023 of cancer.

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Living people Mayors of Cornwall, Ontario Canadian people of Irish descent Progressive Conservative Party of Canada candidates for the Canadian House of Commons Candidates in the 1997 Canadian federal election 21st-century mayors of places in Ontario 1954 births {{Ontario-mayor-stub