Walter Kehoe

Who was Walter Kehoe?

James Walter Kehoe was a U.S. Representative from Florida.

Born in Eufaula, Alabama, Kehoe attended the common schools. He moved to Florida in 1883. He studied law. He was admitted to the bar in 1889 and, being a minor, was authorized by a special act of the State legislature to commence practice in Milton, Florida. He served as a member of the State house of representatives in 1900 but resigned before the legislature convened. He served as a member of the Democratic congressional executive committee. State's attorney for the first judicial circuit of Florida 1900-1909.

Kehoe was elected as a Democrat to the Sixty-fifth Congress. He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection to the Sixty-sixth Congress in 1918. Again State's attorney from June 1925 until March 1926, when he resigned. He resumed the practice of law in Miami, Florida. He died in Coral Gables, Florida, on August 20, 1938. He was interred in Graceland Park Cemetery, Miami, Florida.