1914 Massachusetts gubernatorial election
The 1914 Massachusetts gubernatorial election took place on November 3, 1914. Democratic Governor David I. Walsh defeated the Republican, Samuel W. McCall, and the Progressive, Joseph Walker, and won reelection with 45.93% of the vote.
Image: David I. Walsh (MA)
Image: Samuel Walker Mc Call circa 1920 (cropped)
David Ignatius Walsh was an American politician from Massachusetts. A member of the Democratic Party, he served as the state's 46th governor before winning election to several terms in the United States Senate, becoming the first Irish Catholic from Massachusetts to fill either office.
Portrait by Harris & Ewing
Walsh and then incoming junior senator Henry Cabot Lodge Jr.
Walsh in 1939
Memorial for Walsh in Boston