Michael Walsh (New York)

Michael Walsh ( born May 4, 1810 in Youghal, Ireland, † March 17, 1859 in New York City ) was an American politician. From 1853 to 1855 he represented the State of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Michael Walsh was born during the Napoleonic era in Youghal in Cork. He enjoyed a good education. Walsh studied at Trinity College in Dublin. He then immigrated to the United States and settled in Baltimore ( Maryland). Walsh learned there trade in lithographic printing. Then he moved to New York City, where he sat in the New York State Assembly in 1839. In 1843 he founded the Subterranean, he had to stop after two years, following a conviction for defamation. He was re-elected to the New York State Assembly in the years 1846 and 1848. Politically, he was a member of the Democratic Party. In the congressional elections of 1852 Walsh was in the fourth electoral district of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of John Henry Hobart Haws on March 4, 1853. In 1854 he suffered in his re-election bid a defeat and retired after March 3, 1855 the Congress of. He then worked as a newspaper reporter. Walsh died on March 17, 1859 in New York City and was buried in Green-Wood Cemetery in the then still independent city of Brooklyn.