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Commissioner Of The Royal Canadian Mounted Police

There have been 20 Commissioners since the founding of the NWMP in 1873 :

# W. Osborne Smith ( September 25 , 1873 – October 17 , 1873 )
# George A. French ( October 18 , 1873 – July 21 , 1876 )
# James Farquharson MacLeod ( July 22 , 1876 – October 31 , 1880 )
# Acheson Gosford Irvine ( November 1 , 1880 – March 31 , 1886 )
# Lawrence William Herchmer ( April 1 , 1886 – July 31 , 1900 )
# Aylesworth Bowen Perry ( August 1 , 1900 – March 31 , 1923 )
# Cortlandt Starnes ( April 1 , 1923 – July 31 , 1931 )
# Sir James Howden MacBrien ( August 1 , 1931 – March 5 , 1938 )
# Stuart Taylor Wood ( March 6 , 1938 – April 30 , 1951 )
# Leonard Hanson Nicholson ( May 1 , 1951 – March 31 , 1959 )
# Charles Edward Rivett-Carnac ( April 1 , 1959 – March 31 , 1960 )
# Clifford Walter Harvison ( April 1 , 1960 – October 31 , 1963 )
# George Brinton McClellan ( November 1 , 1963 – August 14 , 1967 )
# Malcolm Francis Aylesworth Lindsay ( August 15 , 1967 – September 30 , 1969 )
# William Leonard Higgitt ( October 1 , 1969 – December 28 , 1973 )
# Maurice Jean Nadon ( January 1 , 1974 – August 31 , 1977 )
# Robert Henry Simmonds ( September 1 , 1977 – August 31 , 1987 )
# Norman Inkster ( September 1 , 1987 – June 24 , 1994 )
# Joseph Philip Robert Murray ( June 25 , 1994 – September 1 , 2000 )
# Giuliano Zaccardelli ( September 2 , 2000 – present)

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Diary of Commissioner George French