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Walter, Francis

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Walter, Francis (Eugene) (1894–1963)

US politician. A lawyer before going to the US House of Representatives as a Democrat serving Pennsylvania (1933–65), he came to prominence when, as chairman of the Subcommittee on Immigration, he sponsored the McCarran-Walter Act of 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. Walter was born in Easton, Pennsylvania.



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