Nathan Phillips (politician)

Nathan Phillips, QC (November 7, 1892 – January 7, 1976) was a Canadian politician and popular Mayor of Toronto, Ontario, from 1955 to 1962. A lawyer by training, Phillips was first elected to Toronto City Council in 1926. He is remembered for being Toronto's first Jewish mayor, and for ending an unbroken string of Protestant mayors, all of whom for over a century, since the appointment of Thomas David Morrison in 1836, had also been members of the Protestant Orange Order.

Nathan Phillips (politician)

Nathan Phillips, QC (November 7, 1892 – January 7, 1976) was a Canadian politician and popular Mayor of Toronto, Ontario, from 1955 to 1962. A lawyer by training, Phillips was first elected to Toronto City Council in 1926. He is remembered for being Toronto's first Jewish mayor, and for ending an unbroken string of Protestant mayors, all of whom for over a century, since the appointment of Thomas David Morrison in 1836, had also been members of the Protestant Orange Order.