Patrick Walsh

Patrick Walsh was born in Ballingarry, County Limerick, Ireland, January 1 1840, died March 19 1899. He was a U.S. Senator from Georgia, 1894-95. He was a Democrat. 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 saved money enough to enable him to enter as a student at Georgetown College, D.C., in 1859, where he remained until the Civil War in 1861, when he returned to Charleston and 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 many papers. He was a member of the state Legislature, 1872-76; delegate-at-large to the Democratic National Convention, 1884, and a member of the World's Columbian Fair Commission. To fill an unexpired term he was appointed by the governor, as a Democrat, a United State senator from Georgia, 2 April 1894, and then was elected to the same office by the Legislature, 3 March 1895

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County Limerick - Ireland - January 1 - 1840 - March 19 - 1899 - U.S. Senator - Georgia - Democrat - Charleston, South Carolina - 2 April - 1894 - 3 March - 1895

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