Walter M. Denny

Walter McKennon Denny ( born October 28, 1853 in Moss Point, Jackson County, Mississippi, † November 5, 1926 in Pascagoula, Mississippi ) was an American politician. Between 1895 and 1897 he represented the fifth electoral district of the state of Mississippi in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Walter Denny attended the public schools of his home and then the Roanoke College in Salem ( Virginia). After studying law at the University of Mississippi in Oxford and his 1874 was admitted to the bar, he began practicing in his new profession in Pascagoula in Jackson County. Between 1883 and 1895 he was in his county government employee at the local district office and courts ( Clerk of the Circuit and Chancery courts ).

Denny was first a member of the Democratic Party. In 1890 he was a delegate at a meeting to revise the constitution of Mississippi. In 1894 he was selected in the fifth district of Mississippi in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington. There he entered on March 4, 1895 on the succession of TR Stockdale. Since he was not nominated for the following elections of 1896 by his party for another legislative session, Walter Denny could only remain until March 3, 1897 Congress.

Changed even in 1896 Denny from the Democratic Party to the Republicans. As a result, he again worked as a lawyer in Pascagoula and was 15 years of legal adviser to the district council in Jackson County ( County Board of Supervisors ). He died on November 5, 1926 in Pascagoula.