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Walter Quintin Gresham (March 17, 1832 – May 28, 1895) was an American attorney, jurist, statesman, and politician who served in the cabinets of presidents Chester A. Arthur and Grover Cleveland. Gresham was the 31st postmaster general of the United States under Arthur from 1883 to 1884 and briefly the 35th U.S. secretary of the ...
Walter Quintin Gresham (Lanesville, 17 de marzo de 1832-Washington D. C., 28 de mayo de 1895) fue un político y jurista estadounidense. Fue general del Ejército de la Unión durante la guerra civil estadounidense, participando en el sitio de Vicksburg y otras batallas importantes.
Walter Quintin Gresham was a leading Republican politician after the American Civil War who abandoned his party to serve as U.S. secretary of state (1893–95) under the Democratic administration of President Grover Cleveland.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
President Grover Cleveland nominated Walter Quintin Gresham to be Secretary of State on March 6, 1893, and Gresham entered into duty on March 7. Gresham died in office on May 28, 1895.
Walter Quintin Gresham: Nacimiento: 17 de marzo de 1832 Lanesville, Estados Unidos: Fallecimiento: 28 de mayo de 1895 Washington D. C. Educación: Universidad de Indiana: Ocupación: Oficial, abogado, juez, diplomático, político y empresario: Partido político: Partido Republicano, Partido Demócrata: Creencias religiosas: Metodismo
Walter Q. Gresham" by James A. Woodburn (Indiana University Bulletin, June 15, 1911), for further information on the youth and early public career of Gresham. * Matilda Gresham, Life of Walter Q. Gresham, I, 128.
President Grant named him a district judge for Indiana in 1869. Gresham's most famous action on the bench was the injunction he issued against unions in the great railroad strike of 1877, urging President Rutherford Hayes to use federal troops to break the strike.
