Walter F. Pool

Walter Freshwater Pool (born October 10, 1850 in Elizabeth City , North Carolina , †  August 25, 1883 there ) was an American politician . In 1883 he represented the state of North Carolina in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Walter Pool was a nephew of US Senator John Pool (1826-1884). He was born in 1850 on the Elm Grove Estate in Pasquotank County , where he attended the public school run by his family. He later studied at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill . After a subsequent law degree and his admission as a lawyer in 1873, he began to work in Elizabeth City in this profession.

Politically, Pool joined the Republican Party . In the congressional election of 1882 he was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the first constituency of North Carolina , where he succeeded Louis C. Latham of the Democratic Party on March 4, 1883 . Pool could not devote himself to his new task because he died on August 25 of the same year, before the constituent session of the congress . After a by-election, his mandate fell to the Democrat Thomas Gregory Skinner .

Web links

• Walter F. Pool in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Walter F. pool in the database of Find a Grave (English)