Edward Walter

Edward Walter (15 January 1866 – 30 January 1932) was a New Zealand politician from Taranaki.

Walter was born in Cornwall, England in 1866. He came to New Zealand in 1886 and lived for one year in the Waikato and in the Hawke's Bay Region. He then moved to Douglas in Taranaki where he stayed for the rest of his life.

He was Chairman of the Stratford County Council from 1917 to 1925.

He was elected Reform Party Member of Parliament for Stratford in 1925, but was defeated in 1928. He died aged 66 years on 30 January 1932, after having been ill for half a year, and was buried in Kopuatama Cemetery.

His grandson, David Walter, was also Chairman of the Stratford County Council, and then Mayor of Stratford and Chairman of the Taranaki Regional Council.

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