Robert Henry Francis Valentine (born 15 June 1950) is an Australian politician. He was the Lord Mayor of the

City of Hobart Hobart City Council (or City of Hobart) is a local government body in Tasmania, covering the central metropolitan area of the state capital, Hobart. The Hobart local government area has a population of 53,684 and includes the suburbs of West ...

local government area, in the State of

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, Australia, from 1999 to 2011. In 2012, he was elected to the

Tasmanian Legislative Council The Tasmanian Legislative Council is the upper house of the Parliament of Tasmania in Australia. It is one of the two chambers of the Parliament, the other being the House of Assembly. Both houses sit in Parliament House in the state capital, ...

for the division of Hobart. Valentine is the great-grandson of Francis David Valentine, who was Mayor from 1925 to 1926. Valentine is also the great-nephew of Edward Brooker (a previous premier of Tasmania) and is the longest continuously-serving Lord Mayor in the History of Hobart (since 1853).

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