Thomas Yates Walsh

Thomas Yates Walsh ( * 1809 in Baltimore, Maryland, † January 20, 1865 ) was an American politician. Between 1851 and 1853 he represented the state of Maryland in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Thomas Walsh attended the common schools and the St. Mary's College, where he studied in the years 1821-1824. After a subsequent law degree in 1832 and its recent approval as a lawyer, he began to work in Baltimore in this profession. At the same time he proposed as a member of the Whig Party launched a political career. In the years 1847 and 1848 he sat on the city council in his hometown.

In the congressional elections of 1850 Walsh was in the fourth electoral district of Maryland in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Robert Milligan McLane on March 4, 1851. Since he Democrat William Thomas Hamilton was defeated in 1852, he was able to complete only one term in Congress until March 3, 1853. This was determined by the discussions about slavery. After the end of his time in the U.S. House of Representatives Thomas Walsh practiced as a lawyer again. He died on January 20, 1865 in Baltimore, where he was also buried.