Walter L. Sessions

Walter Loomis Sessions (* October 4, 1820 in Brandon, Rutland County, Vermont, † May 27, 1896 in Panama, New York ) was an American politician. Between 1871 and 1875, and again from 1885 to 1887, he represented the State of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Even as a child came Walter sessions in the Chautauqua County, New York, where he attended the public schools. After he graduated from the Westfield Academy. After a subsequent law degree in 1849 and its recent approval as a lawyer, he started in Panama to work in this profession. He also worked in the teaching profession as a teacher and school board. At the same time he proposed as a member of the Republican Party launched a political career. From 1853 to 1854 he was a deputy in the New York State Assembly; in the years 1860, 1861, 1866 and 1867, he sat in the state Senate. Between 1870 and 1872 he served as mayor (supervisor ) of the municipality of Harmony.

In the congressional elections of 1870 sessions in 31 electoral district of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Porter Sheldon on March 4, 1871. After a re-election in the 32nd district of his state, he was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1875 two legislative sessions. In 1874 he was not re-elected.

According to the preliminary end of his time in the U.S. House of Representatives Walter sessions again worked as a lawyer. In the elections of 1884 he was re-elected in what was then re- appointed 34th electoral district, which had been dissolved in 1853 in the Congress, where he took up his new mandate on March 4, 1885. In 1886, he was not nominated by his party for re-election. Therefore, he could spend up to March 3, 1887 just another term in Congress.

In 1890 he applied unsuccessfully again to his party's nomination for the upcoming congressional elections. Otherwise, he practiced as a lawyer again. In 1893 he was commissioner of the State of New York for the World's Columbian Exposition, the Chicago World's Fair. He died on 27 May 1896 in Panama, where he was also buried.