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On Saturday, Jim Watson will become the longest-serving mayor in the history of Ottawa, which officially began in 1855.
The milestone will be greeted with pride â and, possibly, horror â politics being a fairly vicious enterprise and longevity the sure way to accumulate hordes of friends and enemies, sometimes the very same people.
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Watson, who also turns 60 this year, is remarkably like Stanley Lewis, the mayor (1936-48) being overtaken. Both masters of small talk, each criticized for having only modest civic visions, they began their careers as aldermen and were adept âretail politicians,â comfortable with paupers and kings.