Jesse Piper
| Jesse Piper | |
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| 10th Mayor of Nelson | |
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In office 1904–1905 |
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| Preceded by | Henry Baigent |
| Succeeded by | Henry Baigent |
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In office 1906–1910 |
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| Preceded by | Henry Baigent |
| Succeeded by | Thomas Pettit |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 1836 Hastings, Sussex, England |
| Died |
(aged 83) Nelson, New Zealand |
Jesse Piper (1836 – 21 April 1920) was a Nelson, New Zealand city councillor and mayor.
Piper was born in 1836 at Hastings, Sussex, England. He went to sea as a youth. On the outbreak of the Crimean War joined the storeship HMS Apollo and sailed to Malta. Once there he was transferred to the express boat Banshee, and then to the HMS Britannia, the flagship of Admiral Dundas. Later Piper served on the paddle steamer Cyclops, which took the 28th Regiment from Malta to Gallipoli. Piper was injured and discharged from the navy. He joined the merchant service until 1860.
He then became a storekeeper in Hastings until he migrated to New Zealand from London on 24 July 1872 on the ship Asterope arriving at Nelson on 19 October 1872. Piper settled in Nelson, and ran the YMCA hostel on the corner or Bridge and Collingwood Street until 1883, when he retired from business.
In 1890 Piper was elected to the City Council and in April 1904 was elected mayor. He lost the mayoralty in April 1905 to Henry Baigent. He stood again in 1906 and was re-elected until 1910. In the 1910 election he was defeated by Thomas Pettit.
Joseph Shephard resigned on 15 April 1885 from the Waimea electorate when he was appointed to the Legislative Council. The resulting 1885 by-election, which was held on 3 June, was contested by six candidates: John Kerr (253 votes), W. N. Franklyn (250 votes), William White (94 votes), Christian Dencker (91 votes), W. Wastney (59 votes) and Jesse Piper (32 votes). Kerr was thus elected.
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