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Joseph Walsh | |
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| Member of theU.S. House of Representatives fromMassachusetts's16th district | |
| In office March 4, 1915 – August 2, 1922 | |
| Preceded by | Thomas Chandler Thacher |
| Succeeded by | Charles L. Gifford |
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| Born | (1875-12-16)December 16, 1875 |
| Died | January 13, 1946(1946-01-13) (aged 70) |
| Political party | Republican |
| Alma mater | Boston University School of Law |
| Occupation | Lawyer |
Joseph Walsh (December 16, 1875 – January 13, 1946) was a member of theU.S. House of Representatives from Massachusetts.
Walsh was born December 16, 1875, in theBrighton neighborhood of Boston. He attended public schools inFalmouth, Massachusetts, and theBoston University School of Law. He was admitted to the bar in 1906 and practiced inNew Bedford. He served as a fish culturist and clerk in the United States Bureau of Fisheries at Woods Hole, Mass., from 1900 to 1905, and also engaged in newspaper reporting in Boston and New Bedford. 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, where he 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 withwomen'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 (theSilent Sentinels) as "bewildered, deluded creatures with short skirts and short hair."[1]It is from this that the filmIron Jawed Angels gets its name.[1] (The use of steel to hold open the jaws of women being force-fed after theSilent Sentinels arrests and hunger strike is also one of the film's plot points.)
Walsh was appointed a justice of the Superior Court of Massachusetts on August 2, 1922, where he served until his death. He died inNew Bedford, Massachusetts, on January 13, 1946, and was buried in St. Mary's Cemetery.
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| Preceded by | Member of the U.S. House of Representatives fromMassachusetts's 16th congressional district 1915-1922 | Succeeded by |
