Jennie Spindler Walsh (1890 – ?) was a teacher and state legislator in Missouri.[1] She was a Democrat.[2]
She was born in Sullivan, Missouri. She attended Steeleville Normal and Business Institute.and St. Louis Academy of Beauty Culture. She married Michael L. Walsh.[3] She worked for a time as a teacher, and then "entered the beauty profession and owned and operated a beauty shop for twenty-five years".[4]
Her address was listed as 4374 Laclede Avenue.[5] In August 1956, it was reported that nine people were registered to vote at that address, a larger number than those actually living there.[6]
She was noted as ill and in the hospital in 1951,[7] but remained in the legislature until her defeat in the 1956 Democratic primary by nursing home operator Evelyn G. Stone.[8]
References edit
- ^ State, Missouri Office of the Secretary of (December 11, 1953). "State Almanac and Official Directory of Missouri". Secretary of State – via Google Books.
- ^ "Discussion about secrecy in MO legislature 1942". June 21, 1942. p. 7 – via newspapers.com.
- ^ Sampson, Francis Asbury (December 11, 1992). "Missouri Historical Review". State Historical Society of Missouri. – via Google Books.
- ^ Mary K. Dains, "Forty Uears in the House: A Composite Portrait of Missouri Women Legislators", State Historical Society of Missouri, Missouri Historical Review (January 1993), p. 158-59.
- ^ "Page 773". mdh.contentdm.oclc.org.
- ^ "9 Voters List At Mrs. Walsh's Home; Only 5 Live There, She Says", St. Louis Post-Dispatch (August 23, 1956), p. 1, 3.
- ^ Representatives, Missouri General Assembly House of (December 11, 1951). "Journal of the House of Representatives of the State of Missouri at the ... Session of the ... General Assembly" – via Google Books.
- ^ "Mrs. Walsh Is Defeated", The Kansas City Star (August 8, 1956), p. 7.