Walter Terry

{{Short description|American politician}}

{{For|the 19th century baseball player|Walter Terry (baseball)}}

Walter E. Terry was a Wisconsin Politician (1909 – 1977)United States Social Security Death Register who served as a member of the Wisconsin State Assembly from 1959 to 1965 and later Wisconsin Senate, serving the 27th district of Wisconsin from 1967 to 1969.{{Cite web|url=http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/dictionary/index.asp?action=view&term_id=2153&keyword=Senate|title=Terry, Walter E.|last=|first=|date=|work=Dictionary of Wisconsin History|publisher=Wisconsin Historical Society|location=Madison|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121107023635/http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/dictionary/index.asp?action=view&term_id=2153&keyword=Senate|archive-date=2012-11-07}} Terry was a graduate of Baraboo High School and the University of Notre Dame. A member of the Republican Party, he was succeeded in the Wisconsin Senate by Everett Bidwell. As a Wisconsin state senator, Terry served as the chairman of the Committee on Agriculture and the Public Welfare during the 1960s.'Wisconsin Blue Book 1970, biographical sketch of Walter E. Terry, pg. 30