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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—MontanaWALSH, Thomas James
(1859—1933)
Senate Years of Service:
1913-1933
Party:
Democrat
WALSH, Thomas James, a Senator from Montana; born at Two Rivers, Manitowoc County, Wis., June 12, 1859; attended the public schools; taught school; graduated from the law department of the University of Wisconsin at Madison in 1884; admitted to the bar in 1884 and commenced practice at Redfield, Dakota Territory; moved to Helena, Mont., in 1890 and continued the practice of law; unsuccessful candidate for election in 1906 to the Sixtieth Congress and in 1910 for the United States Senate; elected as a Democrat to the United States Senate in 1912; reelected in 1918, 1924, and 1930 and served from March 4, 1913, until his death; chairman, Committee on Mines and Mining (Sixty-third through Sixty-fifth Congresses), Committee on Pensions (Sixty-fifth Congress), Committee on the Disposition of Useless Executive Papers (Sixty-sixth Congress); died on March 2, 1933, on a train near Wilson, N.C., while en route to Washington, D.C., to accept the appointment as Attorney General in President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s Cabinet; funeral services were held in the Chamber of the United States Senate; interment in Resurrection Cemetery, Helena, Mont.
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. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1999.
Bates, J. Leonard. The Origins of Teapot Dome: Progressives, Parties, and Petroleum, 1909-1921
. 1963. Reprint. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1978.
___. “Politics and Ideology: Thomas J. Walsh and the Rise of Populism.” Pacific Northwest Quarterly
65 (April 1974): 49-56.
___. Senator Thomas J. Walsh of Montana: Law and Public Affairs, from TR to FDR
. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1999.
___. “Senator Walsh of Montana, 1918-1924: A Liberal Under Pressure.” Ph.D. dissertation, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1952.
___. “Thomas J. Walsh: His ‘Genius for Controversy’.” Montana
19 (October 1969): 2-15.
___. “Walsh of Montana in Dakota Territory: Political Beginnings, 1884-90.” Pacific Northwest Quarterly
56 (July 1965): 114-24.
___, ed. Tom Walsh in Dakota Territory: Personal Correspondence of Senator Thomas J. Walsh and Eleanor C. McClements
. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1966.
Brammer, Clarence Lee. “Thomas J. Walsh: Spokesman for Montana.” Ph.D. dissertation, University of Missouri, Columbia, 1972.
Carter, Paul A. “The Other Catholic Candidate: The 1928 Presidential Bid of Thomas J. Walsh.” Pacific Northwest Quarterly
55 (January 1964): 1-8.
Dunnington, Miles W. “Senator Thomas J. Walsh, Independent Democrat in the Wilson Years.” Ph.D. dissertation, University of Chicago, 1941.
O’Grady, Sister Mary Denis. “The Role of Thomas J. Walsh in Senatorial Contests, 1913-1926.” Ph.D. dissertation, University of Notre Dame, 1951.
O’Keane, Josephine. Thomas J. Walsh, a Senator from Montana
. Francestown, NH: M. Jones Co., 1955.
Schafer, Joseph. “Thomas James Walsh: A Wisconsin Gift to Montana.” Wisconsin Magazine of History
23 (June 1940): 448-73.
Stratton, David H. “Two Western Senators and Teapot Dome: Thomas J. Walsh and Albert B. Fall.” Pacific Northwest Quarterly
65 (April 1974): 57-65.
U. S. Congress. House. Memorial Services Held in the House of Representatives of the United States, Together with Remarks Presented in Eulogy of Thomas J. Walsh, Late a Senator from Montana
. 73d Cong., 2d sess., 1934. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1934.
Walsh, Thomas J. “The True History of Teapot Dome.” In Politics of the Nineteen Twenties
, edited by John L. Shover, pp. 43-56. Waltham, MA: Ginn-Blaisdell, 1970. Reprinted from Forum 72 (July 1924).
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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