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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—MassachusettsWalter FOLGER, Jr.
(1765-1849)
FOLGER, Walter, Jr., a
Representative from Massachusetts; born in Nantucket, Mass., June
12, 1765; attended the public schools; studied law; was admitted to
the bar and practiced; member of the State senate 1809-1815 and in
1822; elected as a Republican to the Fifteenth Congress and
reelected to the Sixteenth Congress (March 4, 1817-March 3, 1821);
resumed the practice of law; died in Nantucket, Mass., September 8,
1849; interment in Friends Burying Ground.
Bibliography
Gardner, William Edward. The Clock That Talks and What It Tells;
A Portrait Story of the Maker: Hon. Walter Folger, Jr., Astronomer,
Mathematician, Navigator, Lawyer, Judge, Legislator, Congressman,
Philosopher, But He Called Himself: Clock and Watchmaker.
[Nantucket]: Whaling Museum Publications; Distributed by the
Personal Book Shop, Boston, [1954].
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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