Walter Reeves (September 25, 1848 – April 9, 1909) was a

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from

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Biography

Walter Reeves was born near

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on September 25, 1948. He moved with his parents to Illinois in 1856, where they settled upon a farm in La Salle County. He attended the public schools, and later taught school while studying law. He was

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, in 1875, and commenced practice in

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. Reeves was elected as a

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to the Fifty-fourth and to the three succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1895 – March 3, 1903). He served as chairman of the Committee on Patents ( Fifty-seventh Congress). He was not a candidate for renomination in 1902. He was an unsuccessful candidate for the Republican nomination for governor in 1900. He resumed the practice of law. He died at his home in

on April 9, 1909, and was interred in Riverview Cemetery.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Reeves, Walter 1848 births 1909 deaths People from Streator, Illinois Republican Party members of the United States House of Representatives from Illinois 19th-century American politicians People from Mount Vernon, Illinois People from Fayette County, Pennsylvania