Walter Reeves

Walter Reeves ( born September 25, 1848 Brownsville, Fayette County, Pennsylvania, † April 9, 1909 in Streator, Illinois ) was an American politician. Between 1895 and 1903 he represented the state of Illinois in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

In 1856, Walter Reeves moved with his parents to a farm in LaSalle County, Illinois, where he attended the public schools. After that, he taught for some time even as a teacher. After a subsequent law degree in 1875 and its recent approval as a lawyer, he began to work in Streator in this profession. At the same time he proposed as a member of the Republican Party launched a political career.

In the congressional elections of 1894 Reeves was in the eleventh electoral district of Illinois in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Benjamin F. Marsh on March 4, 1895. After three re- elections, he was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1903 four legislative sessions. In this time of the Spanish-American War of 1898. Fell Since 1901 Reeves was chairman of the Patent Committee. In 1902, he renounced a new Congress candidacy.

Sought as early as 1900, Walter Reeves unsuccessfully his party's nomination for the upcoming election for governor of Illinois at. After the end of his time in the U.S. House of Representatives, he practiced as a lawyer again. He died on 9 April 1909 in Streator.