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Walter Nesbit (May 1, 1878 – December 6, 1938) was a
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. Born in Belleville, St. Clair County, Illinois, Nesbit attended the grade and night schools. He was employed as a coal miner from 1892 to 1912. He held various offices in the
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, serving as subdistrict secretary from 1912 to 1915, as traveling auditor from 1915 to 1917, and as secretary-treasurer of district No. 12 from 1917 to 1933. Nesbit was elected as a Democrat to the Seventy-third Congress (March 4, 1933 – January 3, 1935). He was an unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1934. He owned and operated the Club Congress in
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. He was an unsuccessful candidate for sheriff of St. Clair County, Illinois, in 1938. He died in Belleville, Illinois on December 6, 1938. He was interred in Green Mount Cemetery.


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{{DEFAULTSORT:Nesbit, Walter 1878 births 1938 deaths Trade unionists from Illinois American coal miners People from Belleville, Illinois Democratic Party members of the United States House of Representatives from Illinois United Mine Workers people