# Walter Nesbit

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{{Short description|American politician}}

{{Infobox officeholder
|name         = Walter Nesbit
|image        = Walter Nesbit (Illinois Congressman).jpg
|caption      = 
|state        = [Illinois](/source/Illinois)
|district     = [at-large](/source/Illinois's_at-large_congressional_district)
|term_start   = March 4, 1933
|term_end     = January 3, 1935
|predecessor  = [Richard Yates Jr.](/source/Richard_Yates_Jr.)
|successor    = [Michael L. Igoe](/source/Michael_L._Igoe)
|birth_name   = 
|birth_date   = {{Birth date|1878|5|1}}
|birth_place  = [Belleville, Illinois](/source/Belleville%2C_Illinois)
|death_date   = {{Death date and age|1938|12|6|1878|5|1}}
|death_place  = Belleville, Illinois
|party        = [Democratic](/source/Democratic_Party_(United_States))
}}

'''Walter Nesbit''' (May 1, 1878 – December 6, 1938) was a [U.S. Representative](/source/United_States_House_of_Representatives) from [Illinois](/source/Illinois).

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 [United Mine Workers of America](/source/United_Mine_Workers_of_America), 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](/source/Democratic_Party_(United_States)) to the [Seventy-third](/source/73rd_United_States_Congress) Congress (March 4, 1933 – January 3, 1935). He was an unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1934. He owned and operated the Club Congress in [Belleville, Illinois](/source/Belleville%2C_Illinois). 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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Category:1878 births
Category:1938 deaths
Category:Trade unionists from Illinois
Category:American coal miners
Category:People from Belleville, Illinois
Category:Democratic Party United States representatives from Illinois
Category:United Mine Workers of America people
Category:20th-century United States representatives

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