Rawlson King

Rawlson King
Ottawa City Councillor
Incumbent
Assumed office
April 16, 2019[1]
Preceded byTobi Nussbaum
ConstituencyRideau-Rockcliffe Ward
Personal details
BornToronto, Ontario, Canada
SpouseLinda Grussani[2]
ResidenceOverbrook[3]

Rawlson O'Neil King[3] is a Canadian politician, who was elected to Ottawa City Council in a by-election on April 15, 2019[4] and re-elected October 24, 2022.[5] King is the city's first-ever Black Canadian city councillor.

  1. ^ "'Ecstatic but exhausted': Rawlson King ready to get to work as Ottawa's first black city councillor". Ottawa Citizen,April 17, 2019.
  2. ^ "Municipal Trailblazers". Association of Municipalities Ontario. Retrieved July 3, 2022.
  3. ^ a b "Search For Contributions". Elections Canada. Retrieved 2021-06-22.
  4. ^ "Rawlson King wins Rideau-Rockcliffe byelection" CBC News, April 15, 2019
  5. ^ "Rideau-Rockcliffe ward results: Rawlson King cruises to victory" Ottawa Citizen, October 24, 2022