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The Shire of Clifton was originally constituted a Divisional Board by proclamation dated 11 November 1879 under the Divisional Boards Act. The first meeting of the board took place on 3 February 1880.

In 1903, the Clifton Divisional Board was abolished by the Governor-in-Council and the Clifton Shire Council was created.

The Clifton Shire area comprised of 865 square km with a population of about 2600. The Shire office was opened in 1940 and was located in the Clifton township. The building was one of the first modern civic buildings built by local authorities on the Downs and was a neatly constructed brick.

On 15 May 2008, the Clifton Council was amalgamated with seven other Councils to form Toowoomba Regional Council.

 

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1880: Charles Clarke

1881, 1890 & 1894: James Hanley

1882: Thomas Grimes

1883 - 1885 & 1889: William Deacon

1886 - 1888: George Clarke

1891 & 1896: John Logan

1892 & 1898: John Keleher

1893: A. Gordon 

1895 & 1897: E. Harvey

1899: M.J. Hinz

1900: James Bourke

1901: J. Collins

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1902: John Keleher

1903 & 1906: Charles Young Gillam

1904: B. McGovern

1905, 1910 & 1915: John Logan

1907: John O'Sullivan

1908: Edward Cooper

1909: P. H. Imhoff

1911 - 1912: J. Purcell

1913: H. N. Smith

1914: James Bourke

1916: John Gallagher

1917 - 1920 & 1924 - 1947: James Meara

1921: James Meara & John Logan

1922 - 1923: W. R. Ross

1947 - 1949: Heinrich William Hinrichsen

1949 - 1955: Herbert Stanley Warfield

1955 - 1967: William Bourke

1967 - 1976: William Warburton Finlay

1976 - 1979: Virgil Cletus O'Leary

1979 - 1982: William Bishop

1982 - 1991: Emmett Patrick Lyons

1991 - 1994: Ian Robert Jones

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1994 - 1997: Reginald Garth Murphy

1997 - 2004: Patricia Ann Collins

2004 - 2008: Ian Robert Jones