Long-time Monaghan Ward councillor Henry Clarke will be running for Mayor of Peterborough in the October 24, 2022 municipal election.
A media release states Clarke will file his nomination on Thursday morning (May 5).
He will formally launch his campaign that evening at the Peterborough Lions Community Centre at 347 Burnham Street in East City.
Clarke is the second person to declare an intention to run for mayor. In March, Northcrest Ward Stephen Wright also announced he would be seeking the office. Incumbent mayor Diane Therrien announced in November she would not be seeking a second term.
Clarke was first elected as Monaghan Ward councillor in 1998 and was subsequently re-elected five times. He was deputy mayor from 2004 until 2018, and was also chair of the city’s finance committee from 2007 until 2018.
A lifelong Peterborough resident, Clarke lived in East City as a child where he attended King George School. After graduating from Thomas A. Stewart Secondary School, he studied history at Trent University and joined the Hastings and Prince Edward Regiment of the Canadian Army in 1971, retiring as its commanding officer in 1997.
After briefly working in banking, he joined Quaker Oats in 1976 where he worked until his retirement in 2019.
