Dorothy Wyatt

Dorothy Mary Wyatt ( Fanning; 1925–2001) was a Canadian politician, who was mayor of St. John's, Newfoundland from 1973 to 1981 and the city's first female mayor.

Biography Wyatt first worked as a secretary, meeting her husband Donald Wyatt while working for American Overseas Airlines in Gander. she died just two days before the city's 2001 municipal election, and was posthumously reelected to her seat on September 25. A by-election was held on November 27 of that year, and was won by Sandy Hickman.

She was a candidate for provincial office twice, running as an independent candidate in St. John's Centre and later for the leadership of the Progressive Conservative Party of Newfoundland and Labrador in the party's 1979 leadership convention. In the PC race, she garnered no votes. She didn't vote for herself, admitting that she had run more "to shake things up" than out of a serious desire to actually lead the party, and was eliminated on the first ballot.

Public image Wyatt revelled in a quirky and offbeat public image, once telling a reporter that she hoped to be classified "as a freak, I suppose".