Dougal Ormonde Walker (January 5, 1890 in the

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– June 28, 1955 in

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) was the 10th

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, serving from 1936 to 1941. He was the 66th

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of the

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. His daughter,

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, served as the 16th president of Wilberforce University, becoming the first female African American college president in the United States.

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