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Walsh (DAVID IGNATIUS American lawyer)

DAVID IGNATIUS, American lawyer and United States Senator, born at Leominster, Mass., in 1872. He was educated at Holy Cross College and at the Boston University Law School, and received honorary degrees from various Catholic colleges and universities. In 1897 he was admitted to the bar; from 1898 to 1900 he was moderator of the town meetings in Clinton, Mass.; from 1900 to 1901 a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives; in 1913 lieutenant-governor and in 1914-1915 governor of Massachusetts. In 1917 he was a member at large of the Massachusetts Constitutional Convention, and in 1918 he was elected as a Democrat to the United States Senate for the term 1919 to 1925.