Bradley Stanford Woodside (born October 9, 1948 in Fredericton, New Brunswick) was the mayor of

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, between 1986 and 1999 and again between 2004 and 2016. Woodside also served as the president of the

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. First elected as a city councillor for

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in 1981, he also served as deputy mayor. In 1986, Woodside was elected Mayor of Fredericton and served eight terms as mayor over the next 30 years, which makes him the longest-serving mayor of Fredericton. In 1999, Woodside resigned as mayor to run for MLA of the Fredericton North riding (No. 43) for the Liberal party. He lost to Peter Forbes of the Progressive Conservatives. Woodside ran for mayor again in 2004 and won. As mayor, Woodside promoted information technology in Fredericton, and helped develop information technology infrastructure such as the Fred eZone wireless zone. During his tenure as mayor, music festivals have been promoted in Fredericton including the

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, the Country Music Festival, and FredRock. While infill development and sustainability have been priorities of his tenure as mayor, he has also faced controversy over sprawling box-store development in the university woods, a previously protected wooded area. Woodside received an honorary doctor of laws degree from St. Thomas University in 2011. Eleven professors at the small liberal arts university protested, in part because of his refusal to proclaim Pride Weekend in the 1990s. In the 2016 municipal election, Woodside was defeated by city councillor Mike O'Brien.

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