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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—North CarolinaWalter Freshwater POOL
(1850-1883)
POOL, Walter Freshwater,
(nephew of John Pool), a Representative from North Carolina; born
at “Elm Grove,” near Elizabeth City, Pasquotank County,
N.C., October 10, 1850; attended the public school conducted by his
family and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; moved
with his parents to Elizabeth City, N.C., in 1870; studied law; was
admitted to the bar in 1873 and commenced practice in Elizabeth
City; elected as a Republican to the Forty-eighth Congress and
served from March 4, 1883, until his death in Elizabeth City, N.C.,
on August 25, 1883, before the assembling of Congress; interment in
the Pool Cemetery, near Elizabeth City, N.C.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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