Richard Wilde Walker (February 16, 1823 – June 16, 1874) was an American politician.
Biography
Walker was born in
Huntsville, Alabama
Huntsville is a city in Madison County, Limestone County, and Morgan County, Alabama, United States. It is the county seat of Madison County. Located in the Appalachian region of northern Alabama, Huntsville is the most populous city in t ...
in 1823. He was the son of
John Williams Walker
John Williams Walker (August 12, 1783April 23, 1823) was an American politician, who served as the Democratic-Republican United States senator from the state of Alabama, the first senator elected by that state.
Life and career
Walker was born Aug ...
, the brother of
Percy Walker
Percy Walker (1812-1880) was an American politician from Huntsville, Alabama.
He was graduated from the medical department of the University of Pennsylvania at Philadelphia in 1835. He began practicing medicine in Mobile, Alabama. He served in ...
and
LeRoy Pope Walker
LeRoy Pope Walker (February 7, 1817 – August 23, 1884) was the first Confederate States Secretary of War.
Early life and career
Walker was born near Huntsville, Alabama in 1817, the son of John Williams Walker and Matilda Pope, and a grand ...
, and father of
Richard Wilde Walker, Jr. Richard Walker, Sr. served in the
Alabama
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state legislature from 1851 to 1855, and served as Associate Justice of the
Alabama Supreme Court in 1859. Walker represented Alabama in the provisional
C.S. Congress from 1861 to 1862. He also served as a
Confederate States Senator from 1864 to 1865. he died in Huntsville at age 51.
In popular culture
In the 1992
Harry Turtledove
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science fiction
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alternative history
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novel ''
The Guns of the South
''The Guns of the South'' is an alternate history novel set during the American Civil War by Harry Turtledove. It was released in the United States on September 22, 1992.
The story deals with a group of time-traveling white supremacist member ...
'', "Senator Walker" is mentioned as opposing a bill to re-enslave
freedmen
A freedman or freedwoman is a formerly enslaved person who has been released from slavery, usually by legal means. Historically, enslaved people were freed by manumission (granted freedom by their captor-owners), abolitionism, emancipation (gra ...
in a victorious Confederacy, but being blackmailed by the "Rivington" cabal into silencing himself.
References
"Alabama: Her History, Resources, War Record, and Public Men From 1540 to 1872," by Willis Brewer, published 1872, pp. 355–356
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1823 births
1874 deaths
19th-century American politicians
Confederate States of America senators
Deputies and delegates to the Provisional Congress of the Confederate States
Members of the Alabama House of Representatives
Politicians from Huntsville, Alabama
People of Alabama in the American Civil War
Signers of the Confederate States Constitution
Signers of the Provisional Constitution of the Confederate States
Justices of the Supreme Court of Alabama
Walker family
Lawyers from Huntsville, Alabama
19th-century American judges
19th-century American lawyers
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