W. Cayley Hamilton

{{Short description|Canadian barrister and politician}} '''William Cayley Hamilton''' {{Post-nominals|country=CAN|QC}} ({{circa|1858}} – October 2, 1901) was a Canadian barrister and politician.<ref>{{cite news|title=Politics not kind to the third mayor|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/81172155/regina-sun/|newspaper=Regina Sun|page=19|date=January 23, 2000|last=Nelson-Mile|first=Amy|accessdate=July 10, 2021}}</ref> He was mayor of [[Regina, Saskatchewan]] in 1888.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.regina.ca/residents/heritage-history/list-of-mayors/|title=List of mayors|publisher=Regina.ca|accessdate=15 July 2014|archive-date=14 July 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140714124453/http://www.regina.ca/residents/heritage-history/list-of-mayors/|url-status=dead}}</ref> In 1898 he founded [[The Law Society of the Northwest Territories]] and became its first president.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~cansk/SaskatchewanAndItsPeople/Volume2/pioneerlawyers.html|title=SASKATCHEWAN AND ITS PEOPLE 1924, Volume II|publisher=Rootsweb.ancestry.com|accessdate=15 July 2014}}</ref>

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