Joseph Walsh

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Joseph Walsh, a Representative from Massachusetts was born in Boston (Brighton), Mass on December 16, 1875. He attended public schools in Falmouth, Mass. and eventually the Boston University School of Law. He was admitted to the bar in 1906 and practiced in New Bedford; served as a fish culturist and clerk in the United States Bureau of Fisheries at Woods Hole, Mass., 1900-1905; also engaged in newspaper reporting in Boston and New Bedford, Mass.; 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 2, 1922, when he resigned to accept a judicial position; appointed August 2, 1922, as a justice of the superior court of Massachusetts, in which capacity he served until his death in New Bedford, Mass., January 13, 1946; interment in St. Mary’s Cemetery.