Frederick Charles Taylor
Taylor was elected in the 1960 municipal election as a reformer. He ran against Christopher Alexander Tonks. Tonks had been conflict of interest scandal. Taylor had been trying convincing the government to create a royal commission to look into corruption in land dealings.. He  had created a motion at township council in 1956 for an inquiry but it was defeated. His own investigation into the issue found that many building permits that had been issued with the result of illegal tri-plexes (small three-level apartment buildings) being built. As a township councillor, Taylor had opposed many of the land deals that had been criticized by Judge David Sweet's royal commission into alleged corruption in York Township. Taylor was a semi-retired builder. He had been a school trustee for four years and a township councillor for three. Taylor was endorsed for the reeveship by the York Township Citizens' Committee. It was a  group that had gotten a |court order to remove Tonks as reeve. The court order was overturned on appeal.