Thomas J. Walsh
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'Thomas James Walsh (June 12, 1859 – March 2, 1933) was a lawyer and Democratic Party politician from Helena, Montana in the United States. He represented Montana in the United States Senate from 1913 until 1933. He helped expose the Teapot Dome Scandal, able chairman of the Democratic convention in Chicago in 1932, opposed child labor, and supported women's suffrage.
Walsh was born in Two Rivers, Wisconsin.
Walsh was nominated for the post of Attorney General by the incoming President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, but he died on a train near Wilson, North Carolina while traveling to Washington, D.C.
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