Cumberland, Maryland, on April 2, 1890. Both his father
and paternal grandfather were lawyers, and the latter was
elected a member of Congress from the Sixth District of
Maryland in 1874 and 1876, and also served as a member
of the Maryland Constitutional Convention of 1867.

Mr. Walsh received his early education in Saint Patrick's
Parochial School, Cumberland, Maryland, graduated with
the degree of Bachelor of Arts from Mount St. Mary's
College, Emmitsburg, Maryland, in 1910, and received his
Bachelor of Laws degree from the Catholic University of
America in Washington, D. C., in 1913. He passed the
Maryland State Bar examination in the fall of 1912, about
six months before his graduation, and after his graduation,
began the practice of law with his father in Cumberland in
June, 1913. He received the honorary degree of Doctor of
Laws from Mount St. Mary's College in 1930.

He joined Company G, First Maryland Infantry, as a pri-
vate in June, 1916, when the National Guard was sent to
the Mexican Border, and served on the Border as a private
and a corporal.

In August, 1917, he went to Camp McClellan, Anniston,
Alabama, as a sergeant in Company G, was commissioned
a Second Lieutenant in the Third Officers Training Camp
in May, 1918, and went overseas as a Second Lieutenant
in the Machine Gun Company of the 113th Infantry in
June, 1918, was promoted to First Lieutenant in France,
and was honorably discharged in April, 1919.

Resuming the practice of law in Cumberland, Mr. Walsh
was named City Solicitor in April, 1920, and served until
September, 1921, when he resigned to accept appointment
as an Associate Judge of the Fourth Judicial Circuit. At
that time he was thirty-one years of age, was the youngest
man ever appointed to the bench in that Circuit, and was
one of the youngest ever appointed in the State of Maryland.
In 1924 Governor Ritchie appointed him Chief Judge and a
member of the Court of Appeals of Maryland, and he served
in this capacity until the election of 1926, when he was
defeated by the present Chief Judge, D. Lindley Sloan, the
Circuit at that time having a Republican majority of ap-
proximately 15,000. He also served as State Insurance
Commissioner from 1931 to 1935.

Mr. Walsh received the Democratic nomination for At-
torney General in September, 1938, after a spirited contest
with three other candidates, and was elected Attorney Gen-
eral of the State of Maryland on November 8, 1938, by the
largest majority ever received by a candidate for that office.