Walter D. McIndoe

Walter D. McIndoe

Walter Duncan Mcindoe (March 30, 1819 - August 22, 1872) was a U.S. Representative from Wisconsin.

Born in Dumbartonshire, Scotland, Mcindoe immigrated to the United States in 1834.He engaged in business in New York, Charleston, St. Louis and finally settled in Wisconsin in 1845 where he became engaged in the lumber business.He served as member of the State assembly in 1850, 1854, and 1855.He was an unsuccessful candidate for gubernatorial nomination in 1857 and provost marshal of Wisconsin during the Civil War.

Mcindoe was elected as a Republican to the Thirty-seventh Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Luther Hanchett.He was reelected to the Thirty-eighth and Thirty-ninth Congresses and served from January 26, 1863, to March 3, 1867.He served as chairman of the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions (Thirty-ninth Congress).He declined to be a candidate for renomination in 1866.He resumed his interests in the lumber business.He died in Wausau, Wisconsin, on August 22, 1872.He was interred in Pine Grove Cemetery.

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