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Joseph Walsh (born December 16, 1875, Boston (Brighton), Mass; died January 13, 1946, New Bedford, Mass.), was a Representative from Massachusetts.
Walsh attended public schools in Falmouth, Mass. and the Boston University School of Law. He was admitted to the bar in 1906 and practiced in New Bedford. He served as a fish culturist and clerk in the United States Bureau of Fisheries at Woods Hole, Mass., 1900-1905 and also engaged in newspaper reporting in Boston and New Bedford, Mass.. He was a member of the State house of representatives in 1905, elected as a Republican to the Sixty-fourth and to the three succeeding Congresses and served from March 4, 1915, to August 2, 1922, when he resigned to accept a judicial position. He was appointed August 2, 1922, as a justice of the superior court of Massachusetts, in which capacity he served until his death in New Bedford, Mass., January 13, 1946. He was buried in St. Mary’s Cemetery.
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