Robert Henry Francis Valentine (born 15 June 1950) is an Australian politician. He was the Lord Mayor of the

City of Hobart Hobart City Council (or City of Hobart) is a local government body in Tasmania, covering the central metropolitan area of the state capital, Hobart. The Hobart local government area has a population of 53,684 and includes the suburbs of West H ...

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, in the State of

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, from 1999 to 2011. In 2012, he was elected to the

Tasmanian Legislative Council The Tasmanian Legislative Council is the upper house of the Parliament of Tasmania in Australia. It is one of the two chambers of the Parliament, the other being the House of Assembly. Both houses sit in Parliament House in the state capital, H ...

for the division of

Hobart Hobart ( ; Nuennonne/Palawa kani: ''nipaluna'') is the capital and most populous city of the Australian island state of Tasmania. Home to almost half of all Tasmanians, it is the least-populated Australian state capital city, and second-small ...

. Valentine is the great-grandson of

Francis David Valentine Francis David Valentine (24 August 1863 – 22 May 1941) was an Australian politician. He was born in Hobart. In 1912 he was elected to the Tasmanian House of Assembly as a Liberal member for Denison. He was defeated in 1913. He was elected a ...

, who was Mayor from 1925 to 1926. Valentine is also the great-nephew of

Edward Brooker William Edward Brooker (4 January 1891 – 18 June 1948) was a Labor Party politician. He became the interim Premier of Tasmania on 19 December 1947 while Robert Cosgrove was facing corruption charges. He died on 18 June 1948, shortly after ...

(a previous premier of Tasmania) and is the longest continuously-serving Lord Mayor in the History of Hobart (since 1853).

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