Walpole G. Colerick

Who was Walpole G. Colerick?

Walpole Gillespie Colerick was a U.S. Representative from Indiana.

Born in Fort Wayne, Indiana, Colerick attended the public schools. He studied law. He was admitted to the bar in 1872 and commenced practice at Fort Wayne, Indiana.

Colerick was elected as a Democrat to the Forty-sixth and Forty-seventh Congresses. Supreme court commissioner from 1883 to 1885. He again engaged in the practice of law at Fort Wayne, Indiana, until his death there on January 11, 1911. He was interred in Lindenwood Cemetery.