William Bell Walton

William Bell Walton (born January 23, 1871 in Altoona , Pennsylvania , † April 14, 1939 in Silver City , New Mexico ) was an American politician . Between 1917 and 1919 he represented the first constituency of the state of New Mexico in the US House of Representatives .

Early years

William Walton attended the common schools and then the South Jersey Institute in Bridgeton ( New Jersey ). In 1891 he moved to the New Mexico Territory . After studying law and being admitted to the bar in 1893, he began to work in his new profession in Deming .

Political career

Walton became a member of the Democratic Party . Between 1901 and 1902 he was a member of the Territorial House of Representatives. From 1903 to 1906 he was employed in the administration of Grant County . In 1908, William Walton was a delegate to the Democratic National Convention and in 1910 he was chairman of his party in New Mexico. A year later he was a member of the constituent assembly of that state. From 1912 to 1916, Walton was a member of the New Mexico Senate .

In the congressional elections of 1916 he was able to prevail against incumbent Benigno C. Hernández of the Republican Party and win his seat in the US House of Representatives. There he completed a legislative period between March 4, 1917 and March 3, 1919. In 1918 Walton declined to run again. Instead, he ran unsuccessfully for the US Senate . He then worked as a lawyer in Silver City. Between 1926 and 1932 he was a district attorney in the sixth legal district of New Mexico. He practiced as a lawyer until 1934, when he retired.

Web links

• William Bell Walton in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• William Bell Walton in the database of Find a Grave (English)