Wall, James Walter
lawyer, United States senator, author, was born May 26, 1820, in Trenton, N. J. In 1847 he settled in Burlington, N. J., and devoted some attention to literary pursuits. In 1850 he was elected mayor of Burlington, and in 1854 visited Europe, and published a volume entitled Foreign Etchings, or, Visits to the Old World's Pleasant Places. During the early part of the war of the rebellion he wrote against the administration in power, for interfering with the freedom of the press. In 1863, he was elected a senator in congress from New Jersey to fill a vacancy. He died June 9, 1872, in Elizabeth, N. J.