Walter Guion (April 3, 1849February 7, 1927) was a

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from

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. Born near

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, he was tutored at home and then attended Jefferson College in St. James Parish. He moved to

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in 1866, was deputy clerk of the court in 1870 - 1871, studied law, was admitted to the

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in 1870 and commenced practice in the Parishes of Assumption,

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, and Ascension. He was judge of the twentieth district from 1888 to 1892 and of the twenty-seventh district from 1892 to 1900, and was

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of the State from 1900 to 1912. Guion was appointed by President

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to the office of

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for the eastern district of Louisiana, which he held from 1913 to 1917, when he resigned. He resumed the practice of law in

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and

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. He was chairman of the district exemption board, division number 2, eastern district of Louisiana, and was a member of the State council of defense during the

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. On April 22, 1918, Guion was appointed as a

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to the U.S. Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the death of

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and served from April 22, 1918, until November 5, 1918, when a successor was elected; while in the Senate he was chairman of the Committee on Coast and Insular Survey (Sixty-fifth Congress). He practiced law in

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until his death in that city on in 1927; interment was in

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