William Walsh (May 11, 1828 – May 17, 1892) was a

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from the sixth district of

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, serving two terms from 1875 until 1879. Born near Tullamore, Ireland, Walsh

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to the

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in 1842 and settled in

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. He graduated from

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, and began studying law. He was admitted to the bar in Virginia in 1850, and commenced practice in

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in 1852. Walsh served as a member of the

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al convention in 1867, and was later elected as a

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to the Forty-fourth and Forty-fifth Congresses (serving from March 4, 1875, until March 3, 1879). In Congress, he served as chairman of the Committee on Revision of the Laws (Forty-fifth Congress), but declined to be a candidate for renomination in 1878. He resumed the practice of law afterwards, and died in Cumberland in 1892. Walsh is interred in St. Patrick's Cemetery.

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