George L. Walton (1850-1941) was the President of the

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and Acting Lieutenant Governor of Louisiana from 1881 to 1884 serving under Governor

Samuel D. McEnery Samuel Douglas McEnery (May 28, 1837 – June 28, 1910) served as the List of Governors of Louisiana, 30th Governor of the U.S. state of Louisiana, with service from 1881 until 1888. He was subsequently a United States Senate, U.S. senator f ...

. During the American Civil War, Walton served as the Captain of Company E of the 16th and 25th Consolidated Regiments of Louisiana Infantry from January 8, 1864 until the end of the war in the spring of 1865. He served as Democratic State Senator representing Concordia Parish from 1880 to 1884. When Governor

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died in 1881, Lieutenant Governor

assumed the governorship and Senate President pro tempore William Robertson became the Acting Lieutenant Governor. Robertson was removed as President pro tempore of the Senate and acting Lieutenant Governor by a vote of that body on December 24, 1881. He was replaced by Walton. who served out the remainder of McEnery's term. In 1884, Walton announced his support for Republican Presidential candidate

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and switched parties. He was then nominated for an

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congressional seat on the Republican ticket. He also ran for Congress for the Louisiana's 5th congressional district on the Greenback-Labor ticket that same year. Walton was unsuccessful in both contests. Walton married Amanda Miller in 1855.

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