Walter Leak Steele

Walter Leak Steele

Walter Leak Steele (born April 18, 1823 in Rockingham , Richmond County , North Carolina , †  October 16, 1891 in Baltimore , Maryland ) was an American politician . Between 1877 and 1881 he represented the state of North Carolina in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Walter Steele attended the common schools, the Randolph-Macon College in Lynchburg ( Virginia ) and Wake Forest College in North Carolina. He then studied until 1844 at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill . At the same time he began a political career as a member of the Democratic Party .

Between 1846 and 1854, Steele was a member of the North Carolina House of Representatives on several occasions . From 1852 he was the curator of the University of North Carolina. He was a member of the North Carolina Senate in 1852 and 1858 . In 1860 he was a delegate to the Democratic National Conventions in Charleston and Baltimore. The following year he was secretary to the assembly that resolved North Carolina's exit from the Union. After studying law and being admitted to the bar in 1865, he began to work in this profession in Rockingham.

In the congressional election of 1876 , Steele was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the sixth constituency of North Carolina , where he succeeded Thomas Samuel Ashe on March 4, 1877 . After being re-elected, he was able to complete two terms in Congress until March 3, 1881 . In 1880 he renounced another candidacy. After leaving the US House of Representatives, Walter Steele worked in cotton processing and banking. He died on October 16, 1891 in Baltimore and was buried near Rockingham.

Web links

• Walter Leak Steele in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Walter Leak Steele in the database of Find a Grave (English)