Walter holds a Democratic seat on the Commission, succeeding Annette Nazareth, who left the SEC in January 2008 to work in private practice.
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He was elected as a Democrat to the 88th Congress, by special election, to fill the vacancy caused by the death of United States Representative Francis E. Walter, and reelected to the seven succeeding Congresses.
Goffart, Walter, The Narrators of Barbarian History (A.D. 550–800) (Princeton, 1988)
His wife, Monica Walter, died in 1982, leaving two sons, James W. Walter Jr. and Robert Walter.