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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—MassachusettsDavid Ignatius WALSH
(1872-1947)
Senate Years of Service:
1919-1925; 1926-1947Party: Democrat; DemocratWALSH, David Ignatius, a
Senator from Massachusetts; born in Leominster, Worcester County,
Mass., November 11, 1872; attended the public schools; graduated
from Holy Cross College, Worcester, Mass., in 1893 and from Boston
University Law School in 1897; admitted to the bar and commenced
practice at Fitchburg, Mass., in 1897, later practicing in Boston;
member, State house of representatives 1900-1901; lieutenant
governor of Massachusetts 1913 and Governor 1914-1915; chairman of
the National Governors Conference 1914-1915; delegate at large to
the Massachusetts constitutional convention in 1917 and 1918;
elected as a Democrat to the United States Senate and served from
March 4, 1919, to March 3, 1925; unsuccessful candidate for
reelection in 1924; resumed the practice of law in Boston; elected
to the United States Senate on November 2, 1926, to fill the
vacancy caused by the death of Henry Cabot Lodge and took his seat
December 6, 1926; reelected in 1928, 1934 and 1940 for the term
ending January 3, 1947; unsuccessful candidate for reelection in
1946; chairman, Committee on Education and Labor (Seventy-third and
Seventy-fourth Congresses), Committee on Naval Affairs
(Seventy-fourth through Seventy-seventh and Seventy-ninth
Congresses); retired from political activities and resided in
Clinton, Mass., until his death; died in Boston, Mass., June 11,
1947; interment in St. John’s Cemetery, Clinton, Mass.
Bibliography
American National Biography; Dictionary of American
Biography; Flannagan, John H., Jr. “The Disillusionment
of a Progressive: U.S. Senator David I. Walsh and the League of
Nations Issue, 1918-1920.” New England Quarterly 41
(December 1968): 483-504; Wayman, Dorothy G. David Walsh:
Citizen Patriot. Milwaukee: Bruce Publishing Company,
1952.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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