Walter H. Albaugh

Walter Hugh Albaugh ( born January 2, 1890 in Phoneton, Miami County, Ohio; † January 21, 1942 in Troy, Ohio ) was an American politician. In the years 1938 and 1939, he represented the state of Ohio in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Walter Albaugh attended the common schools and the local high school. In the years 1910 and 1911 he worked in the construction industry as well as surveyor of oil country in Ohio and West Virginia. After a subsequent law degree from the Ohio State University in Columbus and his 1914 was admitted as a lawyer, he started working in Troy in this profession. He served between May and December 1918 during the final stages of World War I in an infantry unit of the U.S. armed forces. After the war, he hit as a member of the Republican Party launched a political career. Between 1921 and 1925 he was a delegate in the House of Representatives from Ohio.

After the resignation of MEP Frank Le Blond Kloeb Albaugh was at the due election for the fourth seat of Ohio as his successor in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he took up his new mandate on 8 November 1938. Since he did not run in the regular congressional elections of 1938, he could only finish the current term in Congress until January 3, 1939.

After the end of his time in the U.S. House of Representatives Albaugh again practiced as a lawyer. He died on January 21, 1942 in Troy and was buried in Dayton.