biography
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Walter, Francis (Eugene)
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| (1894–1963)
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| biography:
| US representative, born in Easton, Pennsylvania, USA. A lawyer before going to the US House of Representatives (Democrat, Pennsylvania, 1933–65), he came to prominence when, as chairman of the Subcommittee on Immigration, he sponsored the McCarran–Walter Act (1952), which favoured Northern Europeans over other immigrants. In 1955 he became chairman of the House Un-American Activities Committee, casting a broad net to round up ‘subversives’ and successfully resisting attempts to curb the committee's power. |
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