Walley was born in Boston, Massachusetts to Samuel Hall Walley and Miriam (Phillips) Walley.[3] Walley was the grandson of William Phillips, Jr., Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts from 1812 to 1823,[4] and was a descendant of Rev. George Phillips of Watertown, the progenitor of the New England Phillips family in America.[5]
Family
Walley was married twice. Walley married his first wife Mehetable Sumner Bates on October 14, 1829, they had ten children, Mehetable Walley died December 2, 1853.[1] Walley's second wife was Ann Gray Hawes.[6]
After he left college Walley studied law and was admitted[7] to the Suffolk bar in 1831. Walley practiced in Boston and Roxbury.
Walley engaged in banking, he took a prominent part in the organization of the Suffolk Savings Bank.[7] Walley was involved in the creation of the Revere National Bank, and from 1870 until his death he served as its first President.[7]
Walley was involved in railroad development he was the Treasurer of the Vermont Central Railroad, treasurer of the Ogdensburg railroad and a promoter and first treasurer of the Wisconsin Central Railroad.[7]
Walley was elected as a Whig to the Thirty-third Congress (March 4, 1853 – March 3, 1855).
Walley was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1854 to the Thirty-fourth Congress.
Walley was an unsuccessful Whig candidate for Governor of Massachusetts in 1855.
^ abField, David D. (1863), Brief memoirs of the members of the class graduated at Yale College in September, 1802., Boston, MA: New England Historic Genealogical Society, p. 65
^Memorial Biographies of the New England Historic Genealogical Society: 1871-1880, vol. 7, Boston, MA: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1907, p. 259
^Winsor, Justin (1886), The Memorial History of Boston By Justin Winsor Volume II The Provincial Period, Boston, MA: Ticknor and Company, p. 552
^Peabody, Andrew Preston (1890), Harvard graduates whom I have known, Cambridge, Massachusetts: The Riverside Press, p. 214
^Bond, Henry and Jones, Horatio. Genealogies of the Families and Descendants of the Early Settlers of Watertown, Massachusetts, Including Waltham and Weston: To which is Appended the Early History of the Town. New England Historical and Genealogical Society, 1860, pgs. 872-882
^Memorial Biographies of the New England Historic Genealogical Society: 1871-1880 v. 7, Boston, MA: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1907, p. 259
^ abcdePeabody, Andrew Preston (1890), Harvard graduates whom I have known, Cambridge, Massachusetts: The Riverside Press, p. 215
