Walter C. Newberry

Walter Cass Newberry ( born December 23, 1835 in Sanger Field, Oneida County, New York, † July 20, 1912 in Chicago, Illinois ) was an American politician. Between 1891 and 1893 he represented the state of Illinois in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

After a successful education Walter Newberry worked in Chicago and Detroit in the trade. During the Civil War he served in the army of the Union, where he rose to brevet brigadier general. After the war, he hit as a member of the Democratic Party launched a political career. In 1865 he moved to Petersburg in Virginia. From 1869 to 1870 he was mayor there. In 1870 he moved to Richmond, the capital of the State of Virginia, where he served as school board led the supervision of the public schools for four years. Since 1876 he lived in Chicago, where he was in 1888 and 1889 post- holder over the years.

In the congressional elections of 1890 Newberry was in the fourth electoral district of Illinois in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of George E. Adams on March 4, 1891. Since he resigned in 1892 to further candidacy, he was able to complete only one term in Congress until March 3, 1893. After the end of his time in the U.S. House of Representatives, Walter Newberry withdrew into retirement. He died on July 20, 1912 in Chicago.