Patrick Walsh (Catholic Encyclopedia article)
Thomas Meehan · 1913
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Description
Patrick Walsh was an American journalist and United States senator born at Ballingary in County Limerick on 1 January 1840 and dead at Augusta, Georgia, on 19 March 1900. Emigrating with his parents to Charleston, South Carolina, in 1852, he was apprenticed to a printer, attended night school, and saved enough to enter Georgetown College in 1859. Civil War sent him home to Charleston in 1861, where he joined the militia as lieutenant of the Meagher Guards.
In 1862 he moved to Augusta and joined the Constitutionalist staff. That began a thirty-two-year press career through the Pacificator, Banner of the South, and Chronicle and Sentinel. He bought the last in 1877 and merged it with the Constitutionalist. He served as Associated Press agent, state legislator, Democratic convention delegate, and Columbian Fair commissioner. Appointed senator in April 1894, he was then elected to the same seat.
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| CREATOR | Thomas Meehan |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 1913 |
| COLLECTION | REFERENCE |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 1 KB |
| LICENSE | PUBLIC_DOMAIN |
| RIGHTS | PUBLIC DOMAIN |
| SOURCE | New Advent — Catholic Encyclopedia (1913) |