During World War II he served in the United States Army Air Corps on the Aleutian Islands.
[1] In positions with Aetna early in his career, he was appointed editor of the monthly Life Aetna-izer in 1955,[2] and after Hawaii became a state, in 1960, he opened an agency there.
[1] In 1968, Wallhauser sought the Republican nomination for United States House of Representatives in New Jersey's 11th congressional district against three-term Democratic incumbent Joseph Minish.
[4] In that campaign, Wallhauser proposed federal subsidies to urban areas to pay police officers and firefighters.
He did not seek re-election after William T. Cahill lost the Republican gubernatorial nomination to conservative Charles Sandman.