Robert W. White (1922–1985) was mayor of Scarborough, Ontario from 1969 until 1972; the second person to hold the office.
When Scarborough mayor Ab Campbell was appointed Metro Chairman in 1969, Scarbrough council acclaimed White to succeed him as mayor and he went on to be elected outright in the 1969 municipal election.
[1] White was embroiled in a scandal when he accepted a free flight from a land developer so that he would return to Scarborough from Halifax, Nova Scotia in time to vote for a public housing project in which the developer was involved.
Earlier, in 1960 when he was a town councillor, White proposed a bylaw that zoned an area that included his florist business' two acre Kennedy Street property for apartment buildings and failed to declare a conflict of interest.
[4] The controversies led to his defeat in the 1972 mayoral election by Paul Cosgrove.