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Butler City Councilman Michael Walter dies

Butler mayoral candidate Bob Dandoy talks to city councilman Mike Walter on Election Day in 2021. Walter died Sunday at age 74. Seb Foltz/Butler Eagle

Michael Walter, a two-term member of Butler City Council and family man who enjoyed his pets, riding his Harley-Davidson motorcycle and movies, died Sunday at the age of 74.

Born in Fort Walton Beach, Fla. where his late father served in the Air Force, Walter’s family relocated to Butler when he was an infant. He worked in the melt shop at AK Steel, which is now Cleveland-Cliffs, for 32 years before retiring in 2000.

He went on to work for an automobile auction company in Pittsburgh and was working for Diehl Automotive as a driver.

He was elected to city council in 2015 and was in the early part of the third year of his second four-year term. He was the director of accounts and finance during his first term and became director of the streets department in his second term. In 2017, he ran for the Republican Party nomination for mayor, losing to Ben Smith.

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