Arthur Walsh (senator)

Arthur Walsh
United States Senator from New Jersey
In office November 26, 1943 – December 7, 1944
Preceded by	William W. Barbour
Succeeded by	Howard A. Smith
Personal details
Born	(1896-02-26)February 26, 1896 Newark, New Jersey
Died	December 13, 1947(1947-12-13) (aged 51) New York City, New York
Political party	Democratic

Arthur Walsh (February 26, 1896 – December 13, 1947) was a Democratic U.S. Senator from New Jersey from 1943 until 1944.

Biography

Born in Newark, Essex County, New Jersey; educated in the public schools, by private tutor, and at the New York University School of Commerce at New York City; began his career as a recording violinist for Thomas Edison in 1915 and later held executive positions with the Edison Enterprises; during the First World War served as a sergeant in the United States Marine Corps 1917-1919; lieutenant in the United States Naval Reserve 1929-1932; colonel in the New Jersey National Guard 1941-1943; member of the New Jersey Workmen's Compensation Investigating Commission 1932-1933; New Jersey director of the Federal Housing Administration 1934-1935, and as deputy and later as assistant administrator at Washington, D.C. from 1935 to 1938; presidential elector in 1940 on the Democratic ticket; member of the New Jersey State Board of Regents in 1941 and 1942; member of the board of directors of the American-Russian Chamber of Commerce in 1943; commissioner of the Port of New York Authority in 1943; appointed on November 26, 1943, as a Democrat to the United States Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the death of William Warren Barbour and served from November 26, 1943, to December 7, 1944, when a duly elected successor qualified; was not a candidate for election to the vacancy in 1944; chairman of the Committee on Naval Affairs (Seventy-eighth United States Congress); resumed his former business pursuits; died in New York City, New York;. He was interred in Gate of Heaven Cemetery in East Hanover.

References

• United States Congress. "Arthur Walsh (id: W000096)". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress. 

United States Senators from New Jersey
Class 1	Elmer Rutherfurd Davenport Schureman Ogden Condit Lambert Wilson Southard McIlvaine Bateman Dickerson Southard W. Dayton R. F. Stockton Thomson Field J. Wall Wright F. T. Frelinghuysen J. Stockton Randolph Sewell Blodgett J. Smith J. Kean Martine J. Frelinghuysen Edwards H. Kean Moore Milton Barbour Walsh A. Smith Williams Brady Lautenberg Corzine Menendez
Class 2	Paterson Dickinson F. Frelinghuysen R. Stockton J. Dayton Kitchell Condit Dickerson T. Frelinghuysen G. Wall Miller Wright Ten Eyck J. Stockton Cattell F. T. Frelinghuysen McPherson Sewell Dryden Briggs Hughes Baird Edge Baird Jr. Morrow Barbour Smathers Hawkes Hendrickson Case Bradley Torricelli Lautenberg Chiesa Booker