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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—New JerseyArthur WALSH
(1896-1947)
Senate Years of Service:
1943-1944Party: DemocratWALSH, Arthur, a Senator
from New Jersey; born in Newark, Essex County, N.J., February 26,
1896; educated in the public schools, by private tutor, and at the
New York University School of Commerce at New York City; began his
career as a recording violinist for Thomas A. Edison in 1915 and
later held executive positions with the Edison Enterprises; during
the First World War served as a sergeant in the United States
Marine Corps 1917-1919; lieutenant in the United States Naval
Reserve 1929-1932; colonel in the New Jersey National Guard
1941-1943; member of the New Jersey Workmen’s Compensation
Investigating Commission 1932-1933; New Jersey director of the
Federal Housing Administration 1934-1935, and as deputy and later
as assistant administrator at Washington, D.C., 1935-1938;
presidential elector in 1940 on the Democratic ticket; member of
the New Jersey State Board of Regents in 1941 and 1942; member of
the board of directors of the American-Russian Chamber of Commerce
in 1943; commissioner of the Port of New York Authority in 1943;
appointed on November 26, 1943, as a Democrat to the United States
Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the death of W. Warren Barbour
and served from November 26, 1943, to December 7, 1944, when a duly
elected successor qualified; was not a candidate for election to
the vacancy in 1944; chairman, Committee on Naval Affairs
(Seventy-eighth Congress); resumed his former business pursuits;
died in New York City, N.Y., December 13, 1947; interment in Gate
of Heaven Cemetery, East Hanover, N.J.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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