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Thomas Edmund Walsh, Sr. (October 31, 1942 – January 1, 2010), known as Tom Walsh, was a retired lieutenant colonel in the United States Army, a Wyoming educator, a mayor of Casper, and a Republican member of the Wyoming House of Representatives from Natrona County from 2003 to 2008. Walsh served as vice mayor in 1999 and as mayor in 2000, positions which selected among the city council annually by the Casper City Council. He served three nonconsecutive stints on the city council, 1997, 1999–2002, and 2008.〔Diane Goehring, Executive Assistant to the City Manager, Casper, Wyoming, (307) 235-8224〕 He was elected to the legislature in 2002, 2004, and 2006. He resigned his House seat in January 2008, after having been stricken with leukemia, which ultimately claimed his life at the age of sixty-seven on New Years Day, 2010. Years earlier, Walsh had been a volunteer firefighter in Casper. As mayor, he launched the Natrona County Adult Drug Court.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=A giant who will be missed, January 7, 2010 )〕 ==Biographical sketch== Walsh was born to a pioneer Wyoming family and reared in Thermopolis in northwestern Wyoming.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Tom Walsh Day )〕 He was a close friend of the Democratic Governor Dave Freudenthal, who is also a native of Thermopolis. He held bachelor's and master's degrees from the University of Wyoming at Laramie.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=House District 56 )〕 He held the Ed.D., the terminal degree in professional education, from the University of Northern Colorado at Greeley, Colorado.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Carol Crump, "Dr. Tom Walsh, 67, died of leukemia in Casper on New Years Day, 2010" )〕 Having enlisted at the age of sixteen in the United States Army as a private. He served on active duty at Fort Ord, California. His military service extended for thirty-seven years. He made 2,054 parachute jumps and was a marksmanship instructor. His decorations were the Army Meritorious Service Medal, Army Commendation Medal, Army Achievement Medal, and Armed Forces Reserve Medal with two oak leaf clusters.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Obituary of Tom Walsh )〕 Walsh was a long-term educator in Natrona County, having been a teacher in Lovell, the principal of Midwest School, Pineview Elementary,〔 and Dean Morgan Junior High School, and then an assistant superintendent of the Natrona County School District. He also taught for a time at a college in Wisconsin. He and his wife, the former Rita Marie Christensen (born 1943), his sweetheart from Thermopolis High School, married in 1963. A retired educator, Mrs. Walsh is a member of the Natrona County School Board. They had two sons, Thomas, Jr., an accountant, and Christopher E. Walsh, a Casper police captain〔 and four grandchildren.〔 He had an affiliated with the Salvation Army, the Chamber of Commerce, Rotary International, the Army Reserve Officers Association, the Cowboy Joe Club, and the University of Wyoming Alumni Association.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Tom Walsh (Wyoming politician)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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