Bill Smeaton is a former

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politician who served as mayor of Niagara Falls from 1983 to 1991."Smeaton ending 38-year political career"
. ''Welland Tribune'', August 10, 2010. First elected to

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as an alderman in 1973, he was elected mayor in a 1983

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following the resignation of

Wayne Thomson Wayne Thomson is a Canadian politician who previously served as the mayor of Niagara Falls.

, and was subsequently re-elected in the municipal elections of 1985 and 1998. In the 1991 municipal election, Thomson ran for mayor again, while Smeaton ran for a seat on

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, serving on that body until his retirement from politics in 2010. He was appointed as a

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in February 2011."Smeaton newest citizenship judge"
. ''Welland Tribune'', February 25, 2011.

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