US Congressman, Entrepreneur. He was a United States Representative from the State of New York. He was born of the protestant faith to Michael Walsh and his wife Eileen Keefe Walsh in Youghal, County Cork, Ireland, on May 4, 1810. He was educated locally, and completed preparatory studies, before attending and graduating from the prestigious Trinity College in Dublin, Ireland. Following his education, he immigrated to the United States and settled in Baltimore, Maryland. He then took up the trade of lithograph printing and moved to New York City, New York. He lived in New York City, New York, and this is where he founded the famous anti-Catholic Bowery Boys Gang, which would later be featured on television shows and in films. He also founded the radical publication, The Subterranean in 1843, which he immediately stopped two years later in 1845, after he was convicted of the publication of libel. He then took an interest in politics. He was elected and served as a Member of the New York State Assembly for New York County, New York, in 1847, and as a Member of the New York State Assembly for New York County, New York's 12th District in 1848, and again in 1852. He then decided to run for a seat in the United States Congress and was elected to succeed the outgoing United States Representative John Henry Hobart Haws (1809-1858), on March 4, 1853. A Member of the Democratic Party, he then served New York's 1st District (Thirty-Third Congress), in the United States House of Representatives from March 4, 1853, to March 3, 1855. He was an unsuccessful Candidate for re-election to represent the Thirty-Third Congress in 1854. Following his term in the United States Congress, he was succeeded in office by the incoming United States Representative John "Honest John" Kelly (1822-1886), on March 4, 1855. After leaving the United States Congress, he returned to his publishing pursuits and was employed as a newspaper reporter and editor for several short-lived newspapers in New York City, New York, including The Evening Sentinel, until his death on March 17, 1859. He was a radical opponent of teetotalism, and looked upon grog-shops ( a drinking place), as "The Nurseries of Democracy." He also wrote a volume of his speeches and fugitive poems in 1853. He passed away following a foul play incident in New York City, New York, on March 17, 1859, at the age of 48. He was apparently intoxicated at the time, he had been robbed, and he had fallen down a flight of stone steps leading down to a basement cellar. Following his death, his funeral service was held at his residence at No. 208 West Twenty-First Street in New York City, New York, and he was buried in Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn, New York. He was married to Catherine Riley Walsh and the couple had one child together, a son named George Steers Walsh.