William Bell Walton (January 23, 1871 – April 14, 1939) was an American lawyer, politician, and U.S. Representative from New Mexico.

Next, he went to Washington, D.C., to lobby for statehood for the territory, as a member of the New Mexico Constitutional Convention in 1911.

He returned to Grant County and resumed practicing law in Silver City, New Mexico.

He died in Silver City on April 14, 1939, and was interred in the local Masonic Cemetery.

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