Walter Watkins Bahan (November 6, 1860 – March 11, 1916) was an American lawyer and politician from New York City.
[1] His father was a prominent Greenwich Village physician and surgeon who was active in relief works in the Parks Barracks during the American Civil War.
[2] Bahan began attending the New York University School of Law in 1883 and graduated from there with an LL.B.
In the Assembly, he submitted bills to prevent the use of barbed wire in division fences, amend the Penal Code in relation to publishing libelous material, and amending the Penal Code to provide a person inducing another to commit a crime may not plead that the act was performed to obtain evidence of a person's criminal character with reference to conviction.
[4] Bahan later moved to Queens and established a home and law office in Flushing, and then to Long Island City.