Walter Angus Keeling

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Walter Angus Keeling (born November 22, 1873 in Kosse , Limestone County , Texas , †  January 22, 1945 in San Antonio , Texas) was an American lawyer and politician who served as Attorney General in the state of Texas from 1921 to 1925 exercised. After his appointment by President Franklin D. Roosevelt , he served as a federal judge in the federal district court for the western district of Texas from 1942 until his death in 1945 .

Career

After finishing school Walter Keeling attended the University of Texas in Austin , at the School of Law he the 1897 Bachelor of Laws acquired. He then practiced as a lawyer in Groesbeck . From 1898 to 1902, Keeling was assistant prosecutor in Limestone County, before he held the post of chief prosecutor in that district between 1904 and 1908. From 1908 to 1912 he was a member of the Limestone County District Court. In 1912, Keeling became one of the Deputy Attorneys General of Texas; in 1918 he rose to be the first Assistant Attorney General , which he remained until 1921. He finally succeeded Calvin M. Cureton as Attorney General in the state government in 1921 . From 1925 he was back in his private law practice.

As a member of the Democrats , Keeling sat on his party's state executive committee , the Democratic State Executive Committee, from 1908 to 1910 . In 1928 he was nominated as a substitute delegate to the Democratic National Convention .

On January 16, 1942, Keeling was appointed by President Roosevelt to succeed Robert Johnston McMillan as a judge on the United States District Court for the Western District of Texas . After confirmation by the US Senate on January 26, he was able to take office two days later. He practiced this until his death on January 22, 1945; his seat then fell to Ben Herbert Rice . He was buried in Memorial Park Cemetery in Austin.

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SURNAME Keeling, Walter Angus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American lawyer and politician
DATE OF BIRTH November 22, 1873
PLACE OF BIRTH Kosse , Texas
DATE OF DEATH January 22, 1945
Place of death San Antonio , Texas