Representative Oscar M. Lanstrum as the Republican nominee, and US Representative Jeannette Rankin as the National Party nominee, Walsh narrowly won a second term. When Walsh ran for re-election in 1924 and defeated Republican Frank Bird Linderman by a solid margin. In 1930, Walsh ran for re-election and defeated Albert J. Galen in a landslide. During his tenure in the Senate, Walsh gained fame for his legal ability in the Judiciary Committee and speaking ability on the floor. In the 1920s, Walsh headed the Senate investigation into the Teapot Dome scandal that involved top officials of the administration of President Warren G. Harding. He was chairman of the Democratic National Convention in New York in 1924 and in Chicago in 1932. Walsh opposed child labor and supported women's suffrage and, unlike most other Catholics, Prohibition. On December 18, 1927 Senator Walsh introduced a plan to investigate the country's electric industry. The investigation done by the Federal Trade Commission would continue through 1935 and eventually result in four of the most important laws governing the electric industry in the 20th century including the breakup of most of the large holding companies that formed during the 1920s. In 1933, Walsh was nominated for Attorney General by incoming President Franklin Roosevelt. In late February, he secretly married Mina Nieves Perez Chaumont de Truffin. Less than a week later, he died while en route by train to Washington for Roosevelt's inauguration., allegedly poisoned by his new wife. His funeral service was held in the Chamber of the United States Senate, and he was interred at Resurrection Cemetery in Helena. See also List of United States Congress members who died in office (1900–49) References Further reading Bates, J. Leonard (ed.). Tom Walsh in Dakota Territory: Personal Correspondence of Senator Thomas J. Walsh and Elinor C. McClements (1966). Bates, J. Leonard. Senator Thomas J. Walsh of Montana: Law and Public Affairs, from TR to FDR. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1999. External links "Walsh, Thomas James" at American National Biography Online 1859 births 1933 deaths American people of Irish descent Democratic Party United States senators from Montana Montana Democrats Montana lawyers Wisconsin lawyers Politicians from Helena, Montana People from Redfield, South Dakota People from Two Rivers, Wisconsin Candidates in the 1924 United States presidential election 20th-century American politicians University of Wisconsin Law School alumni Educators from Wisconsin Catholics from Montana