Joseph Walsh (Massachusetts)

Joseph Walsh
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Massachusetts's 16th district
In office March 4, 1915 – August 2, 1922
Preceded by	Thomas Chandler Thacher
Succeeded by	Charles L. Gifford
Personal details
Born	December 16, 1875 Brighton, Boston, Massachusetts
Died	January 13, 1946 (aged 70) New Bedford, Massachusetts
Political party	Republican
Alma mater	Boston University School of Law
Occupation	Lawyer

Joseph Walsh (December 16, 1875 – January 13, 1946), was a Representative from Massachusetts.

Biography

He was born on December 16, 1875 in Brighton, Massachusetts.

Walsh attended public schools in Falmouth, Massachusetts and the Boston University School of Law. He was admitted to the bar in 1906 and practiced in New Bedford, Massachusetts. He served as a fish culturist and clerk in the United States Bureau of Fisheries at Woods Hole, Mass., 1900–1905 and also engaged in newspaper reporting in Boston and New Bedford, Mass.. He was a member of the State house of representatives in 1905, elected as a Republican to the Sixty-fourth and to the three succeeding Congresses and served from March 4, 1915, to August 21, 1922, when he resigned to accept a judicial position.

In 1917, he opposed the creation of a committee to deal with women's suffrage. Walsh thought the creation of a committee would be yielding to "the nagging of iron-jawed angels" and referred to the women picketing Woodrow Wilson's White House (the Silent Sentinels) as "bewildered, deluded creatures with short skirts and short hair."^[1]

He was appointed August 2, 1922, as a justice of the superior court of Massachusetts, in which capacity he served until his death. He died in New Bedford, Massachusetts on January 13, 1946. He was buried in St. Mary's Cemetery.

References

1. "House Moves For Women's Suffrage. Adopts by 181 to 107 Rule to Create a Committee to Deal with the Subject. Debated a Heated One. Annoyance of President by Pickets at White House Denounced as 'Outlawry.'". The New York Times. September 25, 1917.

• United States Congress. "Joseph Walsh (id: W000101)". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress.