Walsh, Frank Patrick (1864-1939)

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Frank Patrick Walsh to Julia Clifford Lathrop, October 4, 1912

Emily Greene Balch to William Jennings Bryan, September 7, 1916

Louis Folwell Hart to American Civil Liberties Union, December 19, 1923

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Birth Date

1864-07-20

Death Date

1939-05-02

Birthplace

St. Louis, MO

Biographical Text

Francis Patrick "Frank" Walsh was a nationally recognized lawyer. He started practicing law in Missouri in 1889. In 1913, President Woodrow Wilson appointed him to serve as a chairman of the Federal Commission on Industrial Relations. Additionally, from 1915-1916, Walsh was both an editor and publisher for the Kansas City Post. In 1918, he was named co-chairman of the National War Labor Board with former President William Howard Taft. Walsh gained admittance to the New York Bar in 1919 and began representing the National Women's Trade Union League. Additionally, he defended, and ultimately won, the cases for the head of the United States' Communist Party, William Z. Foster, and Thomas Mooney. Walsh served as the chairman of the Taft Commission of the St. Lawrence Waterway Commission under New York Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt. Roosevelt later appointed him as chairman of the New York Power Authority Committee in 1931. Walsh was one of the founding members of the National Lawyer's Guild and became his provision's president in 1937.

Walsh married Katherine O'Flaherty in 1891. The couple had nine children together, though only seven lived to adulthood. Walsh died in 1939.

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Public domain

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1912

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F P Walsh, Missouri, Jackson County Marriage Records, 1840-1985

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Frank P. Walsh Dies at 75, Power Authority Chairman, Democrat and Chronicle May 3, 1939, p. 6

Frank P. Walsh Dies; Defended 'Reds' Here, The News-Palladium May 2 1939, p. 1

Frank P. Walsh, Renowned Labor Attorney, Dies, The St. Louis Star and Times May 2, 1939, p.3

Guide to the Frank P. Walsh Papers, New York Public Library.

Irish Question and Peace Question, The New York Times September 14, 1919, p. 41

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“Walsh, Frank Patrick (1864-1939),” Jane Addams Digital Edition, accessed November 30, 2023, http://digital.janeaddams.ramapo.edu/items/show/5301.

Walsh, Frank Patrick (1864-1939)

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Democratic Party

Frank Patrick Walsh to Julia Clifford Lathrop, October 4, 1912

Frances Alice Kellor to Paul Underwood Kellogg, July 17, 1913

Carl Dean Thompson to Amos Pinchot, June 14, 1916

Liberty Defense Union List, March 7, 1918

Anne Henrietta Martin to Eleanor Daggett Karsten, May 25, 1918

Walter Lowrie Fisher to Jane Addams, December 19, 1918

John P. Altgeld Biography Subscription List, ca. 1922

Robert Lee Greene to Jane Addams, December 27, 1923

Gifford Pinchot to Jane Addams, January 2, 1924

Louis Freeland Post to Subscribers of the John P. Altgeld Biography, April 5, 1924

Robert Lee Greene to Jane Addams, May 25, 1924

Emily Greene Balch to William Jennings Bryan, September 7, 1916

Louis Folwell Hart to American Civil Liberties Union, December 19, 1923

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