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| Affiliation | Republican |
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| Name | Walter P. Johnson |
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Germantown, Maryland , United States |
| Email | None |
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November 06, 1887
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| Died | December 10, 1946
(59 years)
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| Contributor | U Ole Polecat |
| Last Modifed | Mr. Matt
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| Info | Walter Perry Johnson, nicknamed "The Big Train", was an American righthanded pitcher in Major League Baseball between 1907 and 1927. One of the most celebrated players in baseball history, Johnson established several pitching records, some of which remained unbroken for more than a half-century.
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One of the first five players elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1936, Walter Johnson retired to Germantown, Maryland, and was elected Montgomery County commissioner in 1938. In 1940, he received the Republican nomination for U.S. Congress from Maryland's 6th congressional district, subsequently losing to Democrat William D. Byron by a 60,037 to 52,258 vote margin.
In the remaining six years of his life, Walter Johnson gave his full efforts to patriotic public appearances at war bond rallies. He died of a brain tumor in Washington, D.C., five weeks after his 59th birthday, and was interred in Rockville, Maryland's Rockville Union Cemetery.
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