Walter Kehoe

James Walter Kehoe ( born April 25, 1870 in Eufaula, Alabama; † August 20, 1938 in Coral Gables, Florida ) was an American politician. Between 1917 and 1919 he represented the state of Florida in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Walter Kehoe attended the public schools of his home and moved in 1883 to Florida. After a subsequent study of law and its made ​​in 1889 admitted to the bar he began in Milton to work in his new profession. Politically, he was a member of the Democratic Party. In 1900 he was elected to the House of Representatives from Florida. He put this mandate, however, down before the inaugural session. Between 1900 and 1909 served as a prosecutor in the Kehoe first legal District of Florida.

In the congressional elections of 1916, he was the third electoral district of Florida in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Emmett Wilson on March 4, 1917. Since he was not nominated in 1918 for re-election, he was able to complete only one term in Congress until March 3, 1919. This was marked by the events of the First World War. In the years 1925 and 1926 Kehoe again worked as a prosecutor. He then practiced as a private attorney in Miami. He died on August 20, 1938 in Coral Gables.