Joseph Walsh (Massachusetts)

Joseph Walsh ( born December 16, 1875 in Boston, Massachusetts, † January 13, 1946 in New Bedford, Massachusetts ) was an American politician. Between 1915 and 1922 he represented the state of Massachusetts in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Joseph Walsh attended the public schools in Falmouth. After a subsequent law degree from Boston University and his 1906 was admitted to the bar he began to work in New Bedford in this profession. Between 1900 and 1905 he worked for the Federal Fisheries Agency in Woods Hole. He also worked as a newspaper reporter in New Bedford and Boston. Politically, he joined the Republican Party. In 1905, he sat as an MP in the House of Representatives from Massachusetts.

In the congressional elections of 1914, Walsh was in the 16th electoral district of Massachusetts in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he on March 4, 1915, the successor of Thomas Chandler Thacher took. After three re- elections he could remain until his resignation on August 2, 1922 in Congress. During his time in Congress, the First World War fell. Also, were ratified in 1919 and 1920, the 18th and the 19th Amendment.

Walsh's resignation was after his appointment as Judge of the Superior Court of Massachusetts. A post he held until his death on January 13, 1946 in New Bedford.