title: List of mayors of Newham
text: # List of mayors of Newham
  
  The Mayor of Newham was a position first established in 1965 with the creation of the London Borough of Newham. It replaced the mayors of East Ham and West Ham. A directly elected mayor of Newham was established in 2002 and the position was renamed as the civic ambassador. The office of Civic Ambassador was discontinued in 2009.
  
  ## Mayor
  
  * 1965 Terence Charles McMillan
  * 1966 Alice Emma Gannon
  * 1967 Arthur Frank George Edwards
  * 1968 Abraham Wolffe
  * 1969 Leonard John Simons
  * 1970 Michael Davidson
  * 1971 Edward Sylvester Charles Kebbell
  * 1972 James Christopher Carter
  * 1973 Joseph Charles Taylor
  * 1974 Harry Bauckham
  * 1975 Louis Arthur Wood
  * 1976 Herbert Albert Taylor
  * 1977 Constance Louise Bock
  * 1978 Harold Edward Fitzsimons
  * 1979 Marjorie Edith Helps
  * 1980 Edward Daly
  * 1981 Stanley Hopwood
  * 1982 Julia Caroline Isabelle Garfield
  * 1983 Herbert Thomas Philpott
  * 1984 Charles Albert Flemwell
  * 1985 Thomas Nolan
  * 1986 Sir Jack Clow
  * 1987 Fredrick Ernest York
  * 1988 James George Newstead
  * 1989 Raymond Massey
  * 1990 Sarah Louise Murray
  * 1991 Amarjit Singh
  * 1992 William Chapman
  * 1993 Sarah Jean Reeves
  * 1994 Maureen Knight
  * 1995 William Henry Brown
  * 1996 Shama Ahmed
  * 1997 Victor Francis Turner
  * 1998 Abdul Karim Sheikh
  * 1999 Riaz Ahmed Mirza
  * 2000 Bryan Collier
  * 2001 Sukhdev Singh Marway
  
  ## Civic Ambassador
  
  * 2002 Marie Collier
  * 2003 Joy Laguda
  * 2004 Patricia Holland
  * 2005 Maureen Jones
  * 2006 Pearson Shillingford
  * 2007 Omana Gangadharan
  * 2008 Akbar Chaudhary
  