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Collection of the U.S. House of Representatives
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STINESS, Walter Russell, a Representative from Rhode Island;
born in Smithfield, Providence County, R.I., March 13, 1854;
attended the public schools and was a student at Brown University, Providence, R.I., in 1873 and 1874;
served in the city council in 1875;
was graduated from Boston University Law School in 1877;
was admitted to the bar the same year and commenced practice in Providence, R.I.;
member of the State house of representatives 1878-1881;
clerk of the justice court of Providence 1879-1885;
aide-de-camp on the staff of Gov. A.O. Bourn 1883-1885;
State railroad commissioner 1888-1891;
assistant judge advocate general of Rhode Island 1888-1898;
judge advocate general 1898-1913;
member of the State senate 1904-1909;
chairman of the commission to revise the statutes of Rhode Island in 1909;
United States attorney for the district of Rhode Island 1911-1914;
elected as a Republican to the Sixty-fourth and to the three succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1915-March 3, 1923);
was not a candidate for renomination in 1922;
lived in retirement in Warwick, R.I., until his death there March 17, 1924;
interment in Swan Point Cemetery, Providence, R.I.
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