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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—FloridaJosiah Thomas WALLS
(1842-1905)
WALLS, Josiah Thomas, a
Representative from Florida; born in Winchester, Frederick County,
Va., December 30, 1842; received a limited schooling; engaged in
truck farming; moved to Florida; delegate to the State
constitutional convention in 1868; served in the State senate
1869-1872; presented credentials as a Member-elect to the
Forty-second Congress and served from March 4, 1871, to January 29,
1873, when he was succeeded by Silas L. Niblack, who contested his
election; elected as a Republican to the Forty-third Congress
(March 4, 1873-March 3, 1875); presented credentials as a
Member-elect to the Forty-fourth Congress and served from March 4,
1875, to April 19, 1876, when he was succeeded by Jesse J. Finley,
who contested his election; resumed his occupation as truck farmer;
died in Tallahassee, Fla., May 15, 1905; interment in the Negro
Cemetery.
Bibliography
”Josiah Thomas Walls” in Black Americans in
Congress, 1870-2007. Prepared under the direction of the
Committee on House Administration by the Office of History &
Preservation, U. S. House of Representatives. Washington:
Government Printing Office, 2008; Klingman, Peter D. Josiah
Walls, Florida’s Black Congressman of Reconstruction.
Gainesville: University of Florida Press, 1976.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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