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The Mayor of Hamilton, New Zeland is the head of the municipal government of Hamilton, New Zealand, and presides over the Hamilton City Council. Hamilton is New Zealands fourth-largest metropolitan area. ...

The current Mayor is Michael Redman. Michael Redman (born April 15, 1945) is an American singer who was a member of televisions The Lawrence Welk Show from 1980 to 1982 as part of the trio Gail, Ron and Michael. ...

List of Mayors of Hamilton

	Name	Term	Reason for leaving office
1	Isaac Richardson Vialou	February 1878 to December 1878	Did not contest the following election
2	John Blair Whyte	December 1878 to December 1879	Did not contest the following election
3	Thomas Dawson	December 1879 to March 1880	Resigned
4	Dr Bernard Charles Beale	March 1880 to December 1880	Did not contest the following election
5	John Knox	December 1880 to December 1883	Did not contest the following election
6	Robert Peat	December 1883 to December 1884	Defeated
7	William Australia Graham	December 1884 to May 1887	Resigned
8	Charles John Wright Barton	June 1887 to January 1888	Resigned
9	Isaac Coates	January 1888 to October 1889	Resigned
10	William Jones	October 1889 to December 1889	Did not contest the following election
	Isaac Coates, 2nd time	December 1889 to December 1892	Did not contest the following election
11	John Parr	December 1892 to December 1893	Did not contest the following election
12	William Dey	December 1893 to December 1899	Did not contest the following election
13	George Edgecumbe	December 1899 to May 1901	Did not contest the following election
14	Robert William Dyer	May 1901 to May 1903	Did not contest the following election
	Charles John Write Barton, 2nd time	May 1903 to October 1903	Resigned
	William Dey, 2nd time	October 1903 to May 1905	Did not contest the following election
15	James Shiner Bond	May 1905 to May 1909	Did not contest the following election
15	James Alexander Young	May 1909 to May 1912	Did not contest the following election
16	Arthur Edward Manning	May 1912 to November 1915	Resigned
17	John Edwin Hammond	December 1915 to June 1916	Died in office
18	John Robert Fow	June 1916 to May 1917	Did not contest the following election
19	John William Ellis	May 1917 to August 1918	Died in office
	John Robert Fow, 2nd Time	August 1918 to MAy 1919	Did not contest the following election
20	Percy Harold Watts	May 1919 to April 1920	Resigned
	John Robert Fow, 3rd Time	May 1920 to May 1931	Defeated
21	Dr Frances Dewsbury Pinford	May 1931 to May 1933	Defeated
	John Robert Fow, 4th Time	May 1933 to May 1938	Did not contest the following election
22	Harold David Caro	May 1938 to November 1953	Defeated
23	Roderick Alastair MacDonald Braithwaite	November 1953 to December 1959	Did not contest the following election
24	Denis Robers	Decemebr 1959 to October 1968	Defeated
25	Michael John Minogue	October 1968 to May 1976	Resigned
26	Bruce Craig Beetham	May 1976 to October 1977	Did not contest the following election
27	Sir Ross Malcolm Jansen	October 1977 to November 1989	Defeated
28	Margaret Anne Evans	November 1989 to November 1998	Defeated
29	Russell Matthew Remmington	November 1998 to November 2001	Defeated
30	David John Braithwaite	November 2001 to November 2004	Defeated
31	Michael Gerard Redman	November 2004 -	Incumbent

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Sources

Gibbons, P.J. (1977) Astride the River, Published for the Hamilton City Council by Whitcoulls Limited, pp317-318 and Hamilton City Council Annual Plans.
Hamilton City Council Annual Statement of Accounts and Waikato Times index at Hamilton City Libraries.
Darryl Pike, Archivist, Hamilton City Libraries (Personal communication).

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