List of Mayors of Freetown

Freetown Coat of Arms

This is a list of the mayors of Freetown since the city was founded in 1787. The city council was founded in 1895 almost 100 years later. The mayor of the capital of Sierra Leone , Freetown , has its headquarters in the town hall of Freetown, the Freetown City Hall .

mayor

1787-1900

• from 1845: John Ezzidio
• around 1950: William John Campbell
• from 1865: Sir Samuel Lewis
• 19th century: Emmanuel Cummings

1900-1955

• 1904–1912: John Henry Malamah Thomas
• Claudius Wright
• 1948–1954: Eustace Henry Taylor Cummings

1955-2000

• from around 1961: Siaka Stevens (later Prime Minister and President)
• 1966: Constance Cummings-John
• 1977–1980: June Matilda Bernice Holst-Roness
• 1986–1993: Alfred Abrahim Akibo-Betts

Since 2001

• 2004-2008: Winstanley Bankole Johnson
• 2008–2012: Herbert George Williams
• since 2012: Sam Franklyn "Bode" Gibson

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Hakim Adi, Marika Sherwood: Pan-African History: Political Figures from Africa and the Diaspora since 1787 . Routledge, 2003, ISBN 0203417801 , pp. 29-31.
2. ↑ Akibo-Betts: Legendary Freetown Mayor Remembered. Awareness Times, July 11, 2016. ( Memento of the original from July 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
3. ↑ Freetown's Mayor sentenced to 3 years in jail or a fine of 35,000 US. SwitSalone, August 11, 2012.