Chester Samuel Walters was a Canadian

Canada

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 politician and bureaucrat.

Born in Waterford, Ontario, Walters, a public accountant, founded the Certified Public Accountants’ Association. He was elected as mayor of Hamilton

Hamilton, Ontario

Hamilton is a port city in the Canadian province of Ontario. Conceived by George Hamilton when he purchased the Durand farm shortly after the War of 1812, Hamilton has become the centre of a densely populated and industrialized region at the west end of Lake Ontario known as the Golden Horseshoe...

 in 1915 at age 36. He served until 1916.

In 1934, Walters became deputy minister of public works for the province of Ontario

Ontario

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. The next year, he became deputy minister of the Ontario treasury. He served in this post until 1953.