Lester Petrie

{{Short description|American politician}}

{{Infobox officeholder

|name=Lester Petrie

|image=Lester Petrie (PNL-5-00138) (cropped).jpg

|caption=

|order1 = 7th

|office1 = Mayor of Honolulu{{!}}Mayor of City & County of Honolulu

|term_start1 = January 2, 1941

|term_end1 = January 2, 1949

|predecessor1 = Charles Crane

|successor1 = John H. Wilson

|birth_date = {{Birth year|1878}}

|birth_place =

|death_date = {{Death year and age|1956|1878}}

|death_place =

|party = Democratic

|alma_mater =

|restingplace =

}}

Lester Petrie (1878–1956) was an American politician and Mayor of Honolulu from 1941 to 1947, including when the city was attacked on December 7, 1941, by the Japanese military.{{cite book |last1=Attack |first1=United States Congress Joint Committee on the Investigation of the Pearl Harbor |title=Pearl Harbor Attack: Hearings Before the Joint Committee on the Investigation of the Pearl Harbor Attack, Congress of the United States, Seventy-ninth Congress, First [-second] Session, Pursuant to S. Con. Res. 27 .. |date=1946 |publisher=U.S. Government Printing Office |page=828 |url=https://archive.org/details/pearlharborattac32unit |accessdate=5 December 2019 |language=en}}