David I. Walsh
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David Ignatius Walsh was an American politician from Massachusetts. A member of the Democratic Party, he served as the 46th governor of Massachusetts before winning election to several terms in the Un
Portrait by Harris & Ewing
Walsh and then incoming junior senator Henry Cabot Lodge Jr.
Walsh in 1939
Memorial for Walsh in Boston
William M. Butler
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William Morgan Butler was an American lawyer and legislator for the State of Massachusetts, and a United States senator.
David I. Walsh
…campaigned for his opponent, in the November 1926 special election Walsh won the right to complete the remaining two years of Lodge's term, defeating William Morgan Butler, a friend of Coolidge and head of the Republican National Committee. Walsh's 1924 defeat also marked a turning point in his political philosophy. He…
Butler in 1924