Anderson Howell Walters

Anderson Howell Walters ( born May 18, 1862 in Johnstown, Cambria County, Pennsylvania, † December 7, 1927 ) was an American politician. Between 1913 and 1927 he represented several times the state of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Anderson Walters attended the public schools of his home. In 1878 he graduated from Johnstown High School. In the years 1878-1880 he worked as a telegraph operator and clerk for the Pennsylvania Railroad. Since 1881 he worked for the company Johnstown Water Co. and Johnstown Gas Co. until his retirement from the services in 1902, he had made it to the General Manager. At the same time he proposed as a member of the Republican Party launched a political career. In the years 1890, 1892, 1898 and 1904, he participated in their regional party conferences in Pennsylvania as a delegate. In June 1896, he was also a delegate to the Republican National Convention in St. Louis, on the William McKinley was nominated as a presidential candidate. Walters was 1896-1899 and local Republican Party chairman in his hometown of Johnstown. From 1898 to 1902 he sat in the State Board of his party. He was also a 1900-1904 member of the City Council of Johnstown. From 1902 till his death, he also served as editor of the newspaper Johnstown Tribune. In 1907 he became a member of the Supervisory Board of Johnstown Savings Bank.

In the congressional elections of 1912 Walters was in the 33 state-wide electoral district of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he took up his new mandate on March 4, 1913. Since he resigned in 1914 to another candidacy, he was initially able to do only one term in Congress until March 3, 1915. In the 1918 elections, he was re-elected in state-wide district in Congress, where he could spend 1923 two further terms after a reelection between 4 March 1919 and 3 March. During this time he was chairman of the committee responsible for supervising the expenditure of the Ministry of Labour. In addition, the 18th and the 19th Amendment to the Constitution were ratified.

In 1922, Walters gave up a possible re-election. In the congressional elections of 1924 he was elected one last time in the Congress. On 4 March 1925 he took over the 20 parliamentary mandate his state of George M. Wertz. Until March 3, 1927, he completed an additional term in the U.S. House of Representatives. In 1926, he no longer stand for re- election. He died on 7 December 1927 in Johnstown, where he was also buried.