{{Short description|American politician}} {{For|the football player|Walter Reeves (American football)}} {{Use mdy dates|date=December 2021}} {{Infobox officeholder | name = Walter Reeves | image = Walter Reeves (1848–1909).png | state = Illinois | district = {{ushr|Illinois|11|11th}} | term_start = March 4, 1895 | term_end = March 3, 1903 | predecessor = Benjamin F. Marsh | successor = Howard M. Snapp | birth_name = | birth_date = {{Birth date|1848|9|25}} | birth_place = Brownsville, Pennsylvania | death_date = {{Death date and age|1909|4|9|1848|9|25}} | death_place = Streator, Illinois | party = Republican | signature = Signature of Walter Reeves (1848–1909).png }}
'''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.
==Biography== Walter Reeves was born near Brownsville, Pennsylvania on September 25, 1848.<ref name=Representative>{{Cite book |url=https://archive.org/details/biographicaldi1271mose/page/347/mode/1up |title=Biographical Dictionary and Portrait Gallery of the Representative Men of the United States: Illinois Volume |editor-first=John |editor-last=Moses |publisher=Lewis Publishing Company |location=Chicago |pages=347–348 |year=1896 |access-date=2021-12-11 |via=Internet Archive}}</ref> He moved with his parents to Illinois in 1856, where they settled upon a farm in La Salle County.
He attended the public schools, and later taught school while studying law. He was admitted to the bar in Mount Vernon, Illinois, in 1875, and commenced practice in Streator, Illinois.<ref name=Representative/>
=== Congress === 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.
=== Later career and death === After Congress, he resumed the practice of law.
He died at his home in Streator, Illinois on April 9, 1909, and was interred in Riverview Cemetery.<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/90384976/death-of-reeves/ |title=Death of Reeves |newspaper=Harrisburg Daily Independent |location=Streator, Illinois |agency=Associated Press |page=1 |date=1909-04-10 |access-date=2021-12-11 |via=Newspapers.com}}</ref>
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