Walter Reeves (September 25, 1848 – April 9, 1909) was an American educator, lawyer, and politician who served four terms as a U.S. Representative from Illinois from 1895 to 1903.
Walter Reeves was born near Brownsville, Pennsylvania on September 25, 1948.[1] He moved with his parents to Illinois in 1856, where they settled upon a farm in La Salle County.
Reeves was elected as a Republican to the Fifty-fourth and to the three succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1895 – March 3, 1903).
He served as chairman of the Committee on Patents (Fifty-seventh Congress).
He was not a candidate for renomination in 1902.
He was an unsuccessful candidate for the Republican nomination for governor in 1900.
^"Death of Reeves". Harrisburg Daily Independent. Streator, Illinois. Associated Press. April 10, 1909. p. 1. Retrieved December 11, 2021 – via Newspapers.com.