Walter I. McCoy

Walter I. McCoy

Walter Irving McCoy (born December 8, 1859 in Troy , New York , †  July 17, 1933 in Cambridge , Massachusetts ) was an American lawyer and politician . Between 1911 and 1914 he represented the state of New Jersey in the US House of Representatives ; then he became a federal judge .

Career

Walter McCoy attended the public schools in his home country as well as the Troy Academy . He then graduated from Phillips Exeter Academy in New Hampshire and Princeton College . He then studied to 1882 at Harvard University . After a subsequent law degree at this university and his admission to the bar in 1886, he began to work in New York City in his profession. Between 1893 and 1910 he was a trustee for the South Orange Ward. Politically, he became a member of the Democratic Party . In 1904 and 1908 he was a delegate to the respective Democratic National Conventions . He also served as Party Vice President in Essex County .

In the 1910 congressional election , McCoy was elected to the United States House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the eighth constituency of New Jersey , where he succeeded William H. Wiley on March 4, 1911 . After being re-elected, he could remain in Congress until his resignation on October 3, 1914 . From 1913 he represented the ninth district of his state as the successor to Eugene F. Kinkead . While in Congress, the 16th and 17th amendments were ratified.

McCoy's resignation came after President Woodrow Wilson appointed him to the Supreme Court Justice of the Federal District, where he succeeded Job Barnard . From 1918 until his retirement on December 8, 1929, he chaired this court. Walter McCoy continued to live in the federal capital until 1932; then he moved to Cambridge, Massachusetts, where he died on July 17, 1933.

Web links

• Walter I. McCoy in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Walter I. McCoy in the database of Find a Grave (English)