Francis Eugene Walter
Banker and politician · United States · On the map · Politicians · Lived 1894 to 1963 · aged 69
Francis Eugene Walter was a Democratic member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania. He was a member of the House Un-American Activities Committee from 1951 to 1963, serving as chair of that committee for the last nine of those years.
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He wanted to minimize immigration and was largely responsible for the McCarran-Walter Act of 1952, which kept the old quotas but also opened up many new opportunities for legal immigration to the United States.
