John Fowler | |
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Mayor of the City of South Sydney | |
In office September 2000 – September 2002 | |
Preceded by | Vic Smith |
Succeeded by | Tony Pooley |
Councillor of the City of South Sydney | |
In office September 1989 – 4 February 2004 | |
Personal details | |
Born | Sydney, Australia | 16 July 1954
Died | 29 September 2023 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia | (aged 69)
Political party | Independent |
Occupation | High school english teacher |
John William Fowler (19 July 1954 – 29 September 2023) was an Australian high school teacher and a former mayor of the City of South Sydney. [1]
Fowler was born in Sydney and his family lived in Wallacia when he was a child. He attended Newington College (1968–1971). [2] In 1908 his grandfather John Fowler was appointed postmaster in the town we now know as Wallacia and he became an alderman on the Mulgoa Municipal Council. [3] [4] His father Bernard Noel Fowler was an Independent Mayor of Penrith in 1956 and 1957. [5] His older brother, Ross Fowler OAM, was a Liberal Mayor of the same city on three occasions: 1995–1996, 2013–2014 and 2018–2020. [6]
Fowler was an independent councillor for the City of South Sydney from 1989 until becoming the first non-Labor mayor in 2000. He served in that role until the council was merged with the Sydney City Council. He was the first openly gay mayor in Sydney. [7]