Walter W. Magee

Walter Warren Magee (* May 23, 1861 in Groveland, Livingston County, New York, † May 25, 1927 in Syracuse, New York ) was an American politician. Between 1915 and 1927 he represented the State of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Walter Magee attended the common schools and the Geneseo State Normal School. In 1885 he graduated from the Phillips Exeter Academy in Exeter (New Hampshire). Subsequently, he studied until 1889 at Harvard University. After a subsequent law degree in 1891 and its recent approval as a lawyer, he started working in Syracuse in this profession. At the same time he proposed as a member of the Republican Party launched a political career. In 1892 and 1893 he sat in the District Council of Onondaga County. From 1904 to 1914 he was among the advisers of the city of Syracuse.

In the congressional elections of 1914, Magee was the 35th electoral district of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he succeeded the Democrat John R. Clancy on March 4, 1915. After six re- elections he could remain until his death on 25 May 1927 at the Congress. In this time of the First World War fell. Also, were ratified in 1919 and 1920, the 18th and the 19th Amendment. It was about the ban on the trade in alcoholic beverages or to the nationwide introduction of women's suffrage.