This is a list of mayors and shire presidents of the City of Lake Macquarie and its predecessors in the Hunter Region of New South Wales

New South Wales

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The Shire of Lake Macquarie was proclaimed on 6 March 1906. It became a municipality on 1 March 1977 and a city on 7 September 1984.

The Shire was represented by a Shire President and 16 aldermen. When it became a municipality in 1977, the President's title changed to Mayor, but the aldermen's title remained unchanged until the passage of the Local Government Act 1993.

Shire president (1906-77)

• S. Croudace - (1906-10)
• J. Talbot - (1910-11)
• W M. Beath - (1912)
• S. Croudace - (1913-14)
• R. Gormon - (1914-15)
• W. M. Beath - (1916)
• J. G. Desreaux - (1916-17)
• F. C. Hely - (1917-18)
• J. Johnston - (1918-19)
• W. M. Beath (1919-20)
• T C. Frith - (1920)

• J. G. Desreaux - (1920-21)
• W. M. Beath - (1922-23)
• H. Marks JP
  Justice of the Peace
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   (1923-25)
• J. G. Desreaux - (1926-27)
• G. Pearce (1928-29)
• H. S. Richards - (1930-31)
• J. Johnson - (1931-33)
• G. Pearce - (1933-36)
• C. H. Wilson - (1937-38)
• T. A. Johnson - (April 1938)
• T. I. Johnson JP
  Justice of the Peace
  A justice of the peace is a puisne judicial officer elected or appointed by means of a commission to keep the peace. Depending on the jurisdiction, they might dispense summary justice or merely deal with local administrative applications in common law jurisdictions...
  
   - (1938-39)

• T. A. Johnson - (1939-40)
• C. H. Wilson - (1940-41)
• J. P. Kenny - (1942-43)
• B. A. Allen - (1943-44)
• J. P. Kenny - (1945)
• L. P. Gain - (1945)
• B. Chapman - (1946-47)
• J. P. Kenny - (1947-49)
• L. J. Parsons - (1950)
• C. S. Nichols - (1951-52)
• J. J. Hanlon - (1952)

• C. Hazell - (1953-55)
• J. Brown - (1955-59)
• T. R. Pendlebury MBE
  MBE
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   - (1959-68)
• M. L. Hunter MP
  Merv Hunter
  Mervyn Leslie Hunter is an Australian politician. He was the state Member of Parliament for the electorate of Lake Macquarie representing the Australian Labor Party in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly from 1969 to 1991 and was the Shire President of the City of Lake Macquarie in 1969,...
  
   - (1969)
• W. E. R. Smith - (1969-71)
• W. H. MacDonald - (1971-72)
• W. E. R. Smith - (1972-74)
• E. Lenaghan OAM
  Order of Australia
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   - (1974-75)
• J. A. Edwards - (1975-76)

Mayor of the city (1984-present)

• Cr G R. Pasterfield - (1984-87)
• Cr I J. Welsh MP
  Ivan Welsh
  Ivan Joseph Welsh was an Australian politician.Born in Newcastle, Welsh attended Newcastle Boys' High School from 1952 to 1955 and served in the army from 1958 to 1967, including periods in Malaya and Vietnam . In 1961, he married Lorraine Gay Cox...
  
   - (1987-91)
• Cr D B. Carley - (1991-93)
• Cr J E. Kilpatrick - (1993-2004)
• Cr G M. Piper MP
  Greg Piper
  Gregory Michael Piper MP , an Australian politician, is the independent member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly representing Lake Macquarie since 2007. Piper also serves as Mayor of City of Lake Macquarie, since 2004.-Early years and background:Piper grew up in the Lake Macquarie suburb...
  
  - (2004-present)