Frank P. Walsh

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An attorney with a zeal for advocacy for the poor, St. Louis-born Frank Walsh was chosen by President Woodrow Wilson to head the newly formed U.S. Industrial Relations Commission. Walsh investigated labor-management clashes from 1913 to 1918, and in 1918 was named cochairman with President Taft of the War Labor Board.

Walsh was also an Irish nationalist who chaired the Commission for Irish Independence. He fell out of favor with Wilson when he pushed for U.S. recognition of the proclaimed Irish Republic. In 1936 he was chairman of the Catholic Citizen's Committee for Ratification of the Federal Child Labor Law.