Walter Howard Evans

Walter Howard Evans (April 17, 1870 – July 13, 1959) was a judge of the United States Customs Court.

He then taught school in southern Indiana and Tennessee for 12 years. He returned to Valparaiso for one year of law school in 1897, where he was one of the secretaries of the Indiana Senate (see photo).

He mustered out of the Army in 1903, and graduated from the University of Oregon Law School (then located in Portland) in 1905.

Appointed to be Multnomah County District Attorney as part of the governor's vice clean-up campaign, he then was elected to that office twice.

name="auto">Walter Howard Evans at the Biographical Directory of Federal Judges, a publication of the Federal Judicial Center. Evans was nominated by President Herbert Hoover on January 28, 1931, to a seat on the United States Customs Court vacated by Judge Byron Sylvester Waite.