Joseph H. Walker

Joseph Henry Walker ( born December 21, 1829 in Boston, Massachusetts, † April 3, 1907 in Worcester, Massachusetts ) was an American politician. Between 1893 and 1899 he represented the state of Massachusetts in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

In 1830, Joseph Walker moved with his parents to Hopkinton and to Worcester in 1843. He attended the public schools of his respective home. In the following years he made shoes and boots. From 1852 to 1854 he was councilor in Worcester. In 1868, he founded a leather goods factory in Chicago. Politically, Walker joined the Republican Party. In the years 1879, 1880 and 1887, he sat as an MP in the House of Representatives from Massachusetts.

In the congressional elections of 1888 Walker was in the tenth constituency of Massachusetts in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of John E. Russell on March 4, 1889. After four elections he was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1899 five legislative sessions. Since 1893 he represented there as the successor of John F. Andrew the third district of his state. From 1895 to 1899 Walker was chairman of the Banking and Currency Committee.

After he was not re-elected in 1898, Joseph Walker took his previous activities on again. He died on April 3, 1907 in Worcester.