Josiah Thomas Walls (30 December 1842-15 May 1905) was a member of the US House of Representatives (R-FL) from 4 March 1871 to 29 January 1873 (succeeding Charles Memorial Hamilton and preceding Silas L. Niblack) and from 4 March 1873 to 19 April 1876 (succeeding Niblack and preceding Jesse J. Finley).
Biography[]
Josiah Thomas Walls was born in Winchester, Virginia in 1842 to a family of enslaved African-Americans, and he was drafted into the Confederate States Army as a laborer during the American Civil War. He joined the Union Army in 1863 and rose to the rank of corporal, and he settled in Alachua County, Florida on the war's end. He served in the State House from 1868 to 1869, in the State Senate from 1869 to 1871, in the US House of Representatives from 1871 to 1876, and in the State Senate from 1877 to 1881. He died in Tallahassee in 1905.