- Walter F. Lineberger
Walter Franklin Lineberger (
July 20 ,1883 -October 9 ,1943 ) was a U.S. Representative fromCalifornia .Born near
Whiteville, Tennessee , Lineberger attended the public schools, the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas, and theRensselaer Polytechnic Institute ,Troy, New York . He engaged in mining and agriculture in Mexico. He moved toLong Beach, California , in 1911, where he worked as a farmer and then a banker. He served as president of the Guarantee Bond & Mortgage Co. (Inc.). He was also in theUnited States Army .Lineberger was elected as a Republican to the Sixty-seventh Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of
United States Representative -elect Charles F. Van de Water. He was reelected to the Sixty-eighth and Sixty-ninth Congresses, serving from (April 11 ,1921 -March 3 ,1927 ).He did not seek renomination, but was an unsuccessful candidate for the Republican nomination asUnited States Senator in 1926.He died onOctober 9 ,1943 , inSanta Barbara, California .He was interred in Santa Barbara Cemetery,Santa Barbara, California .References
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