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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—MassachusettsJohn Walter HESELTON
(1900-1962)
HESELTON, John Walter, a
Representative from Massachusetts; born in Gardiner, Kennebec
County, Maine, March 17, 1900; attended the public schools of
Gardiner, Maine, Amherst (Mass.) College, and Harvard Law School,
Cambridge, Mass.; served in the United States Army from October 10,
1918, to December 12, 1918; was admitted to the bar in 1926 and
commenced practice in Greenfield, Mass.; also interested in
banking; secretary of the board of trustees of Deerfield Academy;
selectman of Deerfield, Mass., 1932-1935; president of the
Massachusetts Selectmen’s Association 1935-1938; secretary of
the Deerfield Republican Town committee 1928-1938; member of the
Republican State committee 1936-1938; district attorney of the
northwestern district of Massachusetts 1939-1944; elected as a
Republican to the Seventy-ninth and to the six succeeding
Congresses (January 3, 1945-January 3, 1959); was not a candidate
for renomination in 1958; engaged in the practice of law; was a
resident of Vero Beach, Fla., at the time of his death, August 19,
1962; interment in Hope Cemetery, New Orleans, La.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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