Walton Shields

Walton Shields (October 15, 1870 - January 19, 1927) was an American politician and lawyer. He was a member of the Mississippi State Senate from 1917 to his death in 1927.

Biography Walton Shields was born on October 15, 1870, in Oxford, Mississippi. He was the son of John Whitfield Shields and Sallie (Walton) Shields. Shields attended the public and private schools of Greenville, Mississippi. In 1898, after the Spanish-American War was declared, he enlisted as a private in Company C of the Second Mississippi Infantry. In 1902 and 1903, he was the mayor of Greenville, Mississippi. Shields died in the middle of this term, on January 19, 1927, in Greenville, Mississippi.