List of mayors of Chennai

The city of Chennai in Tamil Nadu, India is administered by the Corporation of Chennai headed by a Mayor. The Mayor is the first citizen of the city. The person is the chief of the Chennai Municipal Corporation. As of 2012, Saidai Sa. Duraisamy is the mayor of Chennai.[1] The Chennai Municipal Corporation has a history of 323 years and the Office of Mayor was formed in 1933.[2] The corporation has been served by 48 different mayors as of 2012.[2]

The city is divided into 200 wards, each of them headed by a councillors who work under the Mayor.[2] In addition to the 200 councilors, there are Deputy Commissioners and Heads of various departments and 15 Zonal officers.[2]

First mayoralty

The Corporation of Madras, the second oldest in the British Empire and the first outside the United Kingdom, was inaugurated on 29 September 1688 based on a Charter issued by James II, King of England. As per the provisions of the charter, Nathaniel Higginson, a member of the Fort St George Council, was appointed first mayor of the city. Higginson resigned after six months and was succeeded by John Littleton. Interrupted between 1746 and 1753 by the brief French occupation of Madras, the post of mayor survived with minor amendments till 1798.

The mayoralty of Madras was amended by the Charter of George I of 1727, Charter II of 1753 and the Company's Charter of 1787. Elections to the office were held annually - from 1688 to 1726, the appointment was made on the 29th of September, from 1727 to 1753, on the 20th of December and from 1753 to 1798, on the first Tuesday of every December. From 1798 the Mayor and Aldermen sat in the Recorder's Court until 1801, when that Court was merged in the Supreme Court of Judicature. The post of mayor was revived only in 1933.

List of Mayors

Source: [3]

# Name Took Office Left Office Term[nb 1]
1 Nathaniel Higginson 29 September 1688 March 1689 1
2 John Littleton March–April 1689 1690 1
3 Thomas Wavell 1690 July 1691 1
4 William Fraser July 1691 September 1691 1
5 William Fraser September 1691 September 1692 2
6 John Styleman September 1692 September 1693 1
7 John Styleman September 1693 September 1694 2
8 John Styleman September 1694 September 1695 3
9 Thomas Wright September 1695 September 1696 1
10 Thomas Wright September 1696 September 1697 2
11 Nathaniel Stone September 1697 September 1698 1
12 Daniel Chardin September 1698 September 1707
Jeremiah Harrison September 1707 September 1709
Robert Raworth September 1709 September 1711
William Jennings September 1711 September 1713
Bernard Benyon 1713 1715
Thomas Cooke 1715 1717
John Legg 1717 1718
Richard Horden 1718 1720
Richard Benyon 1720 1721
Joshua Draper 1721 1722
Catesby Oadham 1721 1723
George Sitwell 1722 1724
James Hubard 1724 1725
Francis Rous 1725 1727
Captain John Powney 17 August 1727 20 December 1727
Francis Rous 20 December 1727 20 December 1730
Thomas Weston 20 December 1730 20 December 1731
William Monson 20 December 1731 20 December 1732
John Bulkley 1732 1732
Paul Foxley 1732 1733
Samuel Parkes 1733 1734
Hugh Naish 1734 1735
John Saunders 1735 1736
Holland Goddard 1736 1737
Captain Rawson Hart 1737 1738
Edward Fouke 1738 1739
Samuel Harrison 1739 1740
Captain Timothy Tullie 1740 1741
Sidney Foxall 1741 1742
Cornelius Goodwin 1742 1743
Henry Powney 1743 1744
Samuel Greenhaugh 1744 1745
Sidney Foxall 1745 1746
Joseph Fouke 1746 September 1746
Mayoralty suspended due to French occupation of Madras (1746-1753)
Cornelius Goodwin 1753 1754
William Percival 1753 1754
Andrew Munro December 1753 1755
John Walsh 1755 1756
George Mackay 1756 1757
Andrew Ross 1757 1758
Samuel Ardley 1758 1759
Claud Russell 1759 1760
Francis Taylor 1760 1761
Peter Mariette 1761 1762
John Lewin Smith July 1762 December 1762
Peter Mariette December 1762 1763 2
John Debonnaire 1763 1764
Thomas Powney 1764 1765
Captain George Baker 1765 1765
Claud Russell 1765 1766
Edward Raddon 1766 1767
Anthony Sadleir 1767 1768
Charles Smith 1768 1769
Edward Stracey 1769 1770
Francis Jourdan 1770 1771
John Hollond 1771 1772
George Smith 1772 1773
John Macpherson (resigned July 1773 and replaced by George Baker) 1773 1774
George Savage 1774 1775
James Hodges (resigned March 1775 and replaced by George Moubray} 1775 1776
John Turing 1776 1777
Andrew Majendie 1777 1778
James Call 1778 1779
George Proctor 1779 1780
Edward John Hollond 1780 1781 1
Benjamin Roebuck 1781 1782 1
Edward Garrow 1782 1783
William Webb 1783 1784 1
Sir John Menzies and James Call 1784 1785
Philip Stowey 1785 1786
Robert Ewing 1786 1787
James Call 1787 1788
Edward John Holland and Edward Garrow 1788 1789 2
William Webb 1789 1790 2
Vincentio Corbett and James Call 1790 1791
Josias Du Pré Porcher 1791 1792
Andrew Ross 1792 1793
John Mitford 1793 1794
Henry Chichley Michell 1794 1795
Benjamin Roebuck 1795 1796 2
James Daly 1796 1797
William Dring 1797 1798
William Abbot (in Recorder's Court) 1798 1799
Alexander Cockburn (in Recorder's Court) 1799 1800
Richard Chase (replaced March 1800 by Henry Sewell, who died July 1800 and was in turn replaced by Benjamin Roebuck) (in Recorder's Court) 1800 1801
Richard Yeldham (in Recorder's Court) 1801 1802

Presidents

Between 1793 and 1856, municipal administration was in the control of Justices of Peace who also had judicial powers in the city. In 1856, the positions were abolished as per the Madras City Municipal Act XIV of 1856. The judges were replaced with three Municipal Commissioners from the civil service. The commissioners collected municipal taxes and enacted laws for the conservancy and improvement of the city. However, the system failed due to lack of financial accountability and the Municipal Corporation was revived in 1860 by the efforts of Sir Charles Trevelyan, Governor of Madras.

From 1886 onwards, a President was appointed to head the corporation and perform the duties of a mayor. The first President of the Corporation was Lieutenant-Colonel G. M. J. Moore, who was then serving as Military Secretary to the Governor of Madras. Presidents were generally appointed for a four-year term but this was reduced to one in 1910. Civil servant T. Raghavaiah was the first Indian to act as President of the Madras Corporation. The first to be appointed as full-time President was T. Vijayaraghavacharya in 1916. P. Theagaraya Chetty of the Justice Party, appointed in 1919, was the first to represent a political party.

# Name Took Office Left Office Term[nb 1]
1 G. M. J. Moore 1886 1902 1
2 S. D. Pears 1902 1906 1
3 E. S. Lloyd 1906 1910 1
4 N. MacMichael (acting) 1910 1910 1
5 P. L. Moore 1910 1911 1
6 T. Raghavaiah (acting) 1911 1911 1
7 P. L. Moore 1911 1913 2
8 A. Y. G. Campbell (acting) 1913 1913 1
9 P. L. Moore 1913 1914 3
10 E. S. Lloyd 1914 1914 2
11 J. C. Molony 1914 1916 1
12 T. Vijayaraghavacharya 1916 1916 1
13 J. C. Molony 1916 1917 2
14 H. H. Burkitt 1917 1918 1
15 J. C. Molony 1918 1919 3
16 Muhammad Bazullah 1919 1919 1
17 P. Theagaraya Chetty 1919 1923 1
18 V. Thirumalai Pillai 1923 1924 1
19 Mohammad Usman 1924 1925 1
20 O. Thanikachalam Chetti 1925 1925 1
21 Sami Venkatachalam Chetty 1925 1926 1
22 G. N. Chetty 1926 1928 1
23 Arcot Ramaswamy Mudaliar 1928 1930 1
24 P. T. Kumarasamy Chetty 1930 1931 1
25 T. S. Ramaswamy Iyer 1931 1932 1
26 M. A. Muthiah Chettiar 1932 1933 1

Mayors

# Name Took Office Left Office Term[nb 1]
1 M. A. Muthiah Chettiar 8 March 1933 7 November 1933 1
2 W. W. Ladden 1933 1934 1
3 M. A. Muthiah Chettiar 1934 1935 2
4 Abdul Hameed Khan 1935 1936 1
5 K. Sriramulu Naidu 1936 1937 1
6 J. Shivashanmugam Pillai 1937 1938 1
7 K. Venkataswamy Naidu 1938 1939 1
8 S. Satyamurti 1939 1940 1
9 C. Basudev May 1940 May 1941 1
10 G. Janakiram Chetty May 1941 November 1941 1
11 V. Chakkarai Chettiar 1941 1942 1
12 C. Tadulinga Mudaliar 1942 1943 1
13 Syed Niamatullah 1943 1944 1
14 M. Radhakrishna Pillai 1944 1945 1
15 N. Sivaraj 1945 1946 1
16 T. Sundara Rao Naidu 1946 1947 1
17 U. Krishna Rao 1947 1948 1
18 S. Ramaswamy Naidu 1948 1949 1
19 P. V. Cherian 1949 1950 1
20 R. Ramanathan Chettiar 1950 1951 1
21 C. H. Sibghatullah 1951 1952 1
22 T. Chengalvorayan 1952 1953 1
23 M. A. Chidambaram 1953 1954 1
V. R. Ramanatha Iyer 1955 1956 1
K. N. Srinivasan 1956 1957 1
Tara Cherian December 1957 November 1958 1
24 K. Kamalakannan November 1958 April 1959 1
A. P. Arasu April 1959 December 1959 1
25 M. S. Abdul Khader 1959 1960 1
26 G. Kuchelar 1961 1963 1
27 R. Sivasankar Mehta November 1963 March 1964 1
28 S. Krishnamurthy 1964 1965 1
29 C. Chitti Babu 1965 1966
30 Era Sambandham 1966 1967
31 Habibullah Baig 1967 1968 1
32 Velur D. Narayanan 1968 1969 1
33 V. Balasundaram 1969 1970 1
34 S. A. Ganesan 1970 1971
35 Kamakshi Jayaraman 1971 1972
36 R. Arumugam 1972 1973
Corporation suspended
37 M. K. Stalin 1996 2002
38 M. Subramaniam 2002 2011
39 Saidai Sa. Duraisamy 2011 Incumbent

Footnotes

  1. 1 2 3 The ordinal number of the term being served by the person specified in the row in the corresponding period

Notes

  1. ↑ "About Corporation of Chennai - Who's Who". Corporation of Chennai. Retrieved 29 August 2012.
  2. 1 2 3 4 "Saidai Duraisamy sworn in as Chennai Mayor". Chennai Corporation. Retrieved 29 August 2012.
  3. ↑ Love, Henry Davidson. "Appendix V - List of mayors of Madraspatnam". Vestiges of Old Madras. pp. 551–554.

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