William Robert Morrison

William Morrison, KC, (April 20, 1878 - March 16, 1947) was Mayor of Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, from 1935 to 1943.

First serving as a lawyer and, later, a Crown Prosecutor, Morrison was first elected as an alderman for Ward 2 in 1921.

He was elected in a by-election in 1928 as the Conservative Party Member of Provincial Parliament for Hamilton East.

During his time with the Conservatives he nominated Colonel George Drew as leader of the party.

[2] He married Lucy Musson Weir, and had one son, William Robert Morrison, (1912–1983), who became a provincial court judge in Hamilton.