Claude Lionel Harrison (September 20, 1886 – March 12, 1986) became the 44th mayor of Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, after serving as the city's prosecutor[1] for forty years.
[2] The son of judge Eli Harrison and Eunice Mary Louisa Seabrook,[3][1] he was born in Victoria.
[3] He was 64 years old when he was elected as mayor, serving from 1951 until 1955.
[4] After John Maitland Marshall, a librarian suspected of leftist leanings, was fired in 1954, Harrison stated that he would support the burning of any subversive books found on library shelves.
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