John Richard Walsh (May 22, 1913 – January 23, 1975) was an American lawyer and politician who served one term as a U.S. Representative from Indiana from 1949 to 1951.
He served in the United States Army with the Thirty-fifth Infantry Division from May 18, 1942, until discharged as a technical sergeant June 15, 1943.
He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1950 and for election in 1954 to the Eighty-fourth Congress, after which he resumed the practice of law in Anderson.
Walsh served as member of the board of directors and as secretary-treasurer of the State Security Life Insurance Co. from 1953 to 1958.
This article incorporates public domain material from the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress