Obituary of Walter L. Bragg, Pulaski Co, Ar

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Obituary: Walter Lawrence Bragg - Commissioner of the Interstate Commerce
Commission, died yesterday at Avon-by-the-sea, N.J. He was suffering from the
effects of wounds received during the war, and had been in failing health for
two years. He was born in Alabama Feb. 25, 1838. His parents moved to Arkansas
in 1844, and his boyhood home was thenceforth at Quachita in that state. He was
graduated from Harvard University in 1858, and soon after began the practice of
law in Camden, Arkansas. During the war he served on the Confederate side,
mostly with the Army of Tennessee, and came out with the rank of Captain. After
the war he settled in Alabama, and in 1871 made his home in Montgomery. For
three years, from 1874 he was the Chairman of the Democratic Executive Committee
of that state, and in 1876 was sent as a delegate to the St. Louis convention,
where he was made a member of the Democratic National Committee for Alabama. He
was an elector on the Hancock - English ticket for the state in 1880. In 1881 he
was appointed President of the Alabama Railroad Commission, and reappointed two
years later. President Cleveland appointed him an Inter - state Commerce
Commissioner in 1887, and again in 1889. He was highly respected by his
associates on the commission, and was a most arduous worker. He leaves a wife
and son. The body will be sent to Montgomery today. New York Times Aug. 22,
1891.

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New York Times via Ancestry. com