Patrick Walsh (Southern U.S. politician)
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Patrick Walsh | |
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United States Senator from Georgia |
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In office April 2, 1894 – March 3, 1895 |
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Preceded by | Alfred H. Colquitt |
Succeeded by | Augustus O. Bacon |
Member of the Georgia General Assembly | |
In office 1872-1876 |
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Personal details | |
Born | Ballingarry, County Limerick, Ireland |
January 1, 1840
Died | Script error: The function "death_date_and_age" does not exist. Augusta, Georgia |
Political party | Democratic |
Patrick Walsh (January 1, 1840 – March 19, 1899) was an American politician and journalist.
Walsh was born in Ballingarry, County Limerick, Ireland. With his parents he emigrated in 1852 to Charleston, South Carolina, where he was apprenticed to a printer. While working at this trade he attended night school and eventually entered Georgetown College (now Georgetown University) in Washington, D.C., in 1859, where he remained until the American Civil War.
In 1861, Walsh returned to Charleston, to fight for the Confederacy. He joined the state militia as a lieutenant of the Meagher Guards of the First Regiment, Carolina Rifle Militia. In 1862 he moved to Augusta, Georgia where he was an editor at the Augusta Chronicle and other papers. After the war, he was elected as State Representative in the Georgia General Assembly, serving as a Democrat, from 1872 until 1876. In 1884, he was elected as delegate-at-large to the Democratic National Convention. He also served as a member of the World's Columbian Fair Commission. In 1894, the Governor of Georgia appointed Walsh to fill an unexpired term in the United States Senate. He served as a Democratic senator, 2 April 1894 until 3 March 1895.
Walsh was later elected mayor of Augusta, and served from 1897 until his death on March 19, 1899. Walsh was buried in City Cemetery.
References
- Patrick Walsh at the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress
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United States Senate | ||
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Preceded by | U.S. Senator (Class 2) from Georgia 1894–1895 Served alongside: John B. Gordon |
Succeeded by Augustus O. Bacon |
See also
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- 1840 births
- 1899 deaths
- Irish emigrants to the United States (before 1923)
- Members of the Georgia House of Representatives
- United States Senators from Georgia (U.S. state)
- Mayors of Augusta, Georgia
- Politicians from County Limerick
- Democratic Party United States Senators
- Georgia (U.S. state) Democrats
- 19th-century American politicians
- Georgia (U.S. state) mayor stubs