John R. Walsh

John Richard Walsh ( May 22nd, 1913 in Martinsville, Morgan County, Indiana, † January 23, 1975 in Anderson, Indiana ) was an American politician. Between 1949 and 1951 he represented the State of Indiana in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

John Walsh attended the public schools of his home. After a subsequent law degree from Indiana University and his 1934 was admitted to the bar he began in Martinsville to work in this profession. In the years 1935 and 1936 he was also a legal representative of Morgan County; In 1941, he served as Deputy Attorney General of the State of Indiana. In the years 1942 and 1943, he participated as a soldier in the U.S. Army in the Second World War. He then practiced as a lawyer again. Between 1945 and 1946 he was deputy district attorney in Madison County. In 1948 he was commissioner estate in the same district.

Politically, Walsh was a member of the Democratic Party. In the congressional elections of 1948 he was in the fifth electoral district of Indiana in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Forest Harness on January 3, 1949. Since he has not been confirmed in 1950, he was able to complete only one term in Congress until January 3, 1951.

After his retirement from the U.S. House of Representatives John Walsh again worked as a lawyer. In 1954, a new Congress failed candidacy. Between 1953 and 1958 he was a board member of the State Security Life Insurance Co. In the years 1958 to 1960 he served as Secretary of State, the executive officers of the state government of Indiana. In 1960 he was a delegate to the Democratic National Convention in Los Angeles in part, was nominated on the John F. Kennedy as the presidential candidate. From 1964 to 1965 he was the legal representative of Madison County. John Walsh died on January 23, 1975 in Anderson.