Walter M. Denny

Walter McKennon Denny (born October 28, 1853 in Moss Point , Jackson County , Mississippi , † November 5, 1926 in Pascagoula , Mississippi) was an American politician . Between 1895 and 1897 he represented the fifth constituency of the state of Mississippi in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Walter Denny attended the common schools and then the Roanoke College in Salem ( Virginia ). After studying law at the University of Mississippi at Oxford and his admission to the bar in 1874, he began to practice in Pascagoula in Jackson County in his new profession. Between 1883 and 1895 he was an administrative clerk at the local district and chancellery courts ( Clerk of the Circuit and Chancery courts ).

Denny was initially a member of the Democratic Party . In 1890 he was a delegate to a meeting to revise the Mississippi Constitution. In 1894 he was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the fifth district of Mississippi . There he took over from TR Stockdale on March 4, 1895 . Since he was no longer nominated by his party for a further legislative period in the following elections in 1896, Walter Denny could only remain in Congress until March 3, 1897 .

In 1896 Denny switched from the Democratic Party to the Republicans . As a result, he worked again as a lawyer in Pascagoula and was legal advisor to the county council in Jackson County ( County Board of Supervisors ) for 15 years . He died on November 5, 1926 in Pascagoula.

Web links

• Walter M. Denny in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Walter M. Denny in the database of Find a Grave (English)