{{Short description|American politician (1765–1849)}} {{Use mdy dates|date=July 2020}} {{Infobox officeholder | name = Walter Folger Jr. | image = Hon. Walter Folger.jpg | image_size = 250px | caption = | state1 = [[Massachusetts]] | district1 = [[Massachusetts's 9th congressional district|9th]] | term_start1 = March 4, 1817 | term_end1 = March 3, 1821 | preceded1 = [[John Reed Jr.]] | succeeded1 = [[John Reed Jr.]] | office2 = Member of the [[Massachusetts Senate]] | term2 = 1809-1815 | birth_date = {{birth date|1765|6|12}} | birth_place = [[Nantucket]], [[Province of Massachusetts Bay]], [[British America]] | death_date = {{death date and age|1849|9|8|1765|6|12}} | death_place = [[Nantucket]], [[Massachusetts]], U.S. | party = [[Democratic-Republican]] | parents = Walter Folger Sr.<br>Elizabeth ''Starbuck'' Folger | relations = [[Phebe Folger Coleman|Phebe ''Folger'' Coleman]] (sister)<br>[[Lydia Folger Fowler|Lydia ''Folger'' Fowler]] (niece) | children = | alma_mater = | occupation = | profession = Attorney | signature = | website = | footnotes = }}
'''Walter Folger Jr.''' (June 12, 1765 – September 8, 1849) was a [[United States House of Representatives|U.S. representative]] from [[Massachusetts]].
==Biography== Born in [[Nantucket]] in the [[Province of Massachusetts Bay]], Folger was a member of a large family that included his sister, diarist [[Phebe Folger Coleman|Phebe ''Folger'' Coleman]]. Notably he was the great-great-great grandson of [[Peter Folger (Nantucket settler)|Peter Folger]] and [[Mary Morrell Folger]] and first cousin three times removed of [[Benjamin Franklin]]. Through his mother he is also a member or the [[Starbuck (whaling family)|Starbuck whaling family]] of Nantucket.
He attended public schools before studying law. He was [[Admission to the bar in the United States|admitted to the bar]] and practiced before serving as member of the [[Massachusetts State Senate]]. Folger was elected as a [[Democratic-Republican]] to the [[15th United States Congress|Fifteenth]] Congress and reelected to the [[16th United States Congress|Sixteenth]] Congress (March 4, 1817 – March 3, 1821). He resumed the practice of law, and died in [[Nantucket, Massachusetts|Nantucket]] on September 8, 1849. He was interred in Friends Burying Ground.
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