Walter Folger, Jr.

U.S. Congressperson

1765 – 1849

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Who was Walter Folger, Jr.?

Walter Folger, Jr. was a U.S. Representative from Massachusetts. Born in Nantucket, Folger attended the public schools. He studied law, was admitted to the bar and practiced. He served as member of the Massachusetts State Senate.

Folger was elected as a Democratic-Republican to the Fifteenth Congress and reelected to the Sixteenth Congress. He resumed the practice of law, and died in Nantucket on September 8, 1849. He was interred in Friends Burying Ground.

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Born
Jun 12, 1765
Nantucket
Died
Sep 8, 1849
Nantucket

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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