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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—MissouriWalter Lewis HENSLEY
(1871-1946)
HENSLEY, Walter Lewis, a
Representative from Missouri; born near Pevely, Jefferson County,
Mo., September 3, 1871; attended the public schools and the law
department of the University of Missouri at Columbia; was admitted
to the bar in 1894 and commenced practice in Wayne County, Mo.;
moved to Bonne Terre, St. Francois County, Mo., and continued the
practice of law; prosecuting attorney of St. Francois County
1898-1902; moved to Farmington, Mo., and practiced law; elected as
a Democrat to the Sixty-second and to the three succeeding
Congresses (March 4, 1911-March 3, 1919); was not a candidate for
renomination in 1918; United States district attorney from March
1919 until he resigned in May 1920; reengaged in the private
practice of law in St. Louis, Mo., until 1936, when he retired and
moved to near Pevely; died at his summer home in Ludington, Mich.,
July 18, 1946; interment in Sandy Baptist Cemetery, near Pevely,
Mo.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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