Richard Wilde Walker (February 16, 1823 – June 16, 1874) was an American politician.

Biography

Walker was born in

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in 1823. He was the son of John Williams Walker, the brother of

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and LeRoy Pope Walker, and father of Richard Wilde Walker, Jr. Richard Walker, Sr. served in the

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state legislature from 1851 to 1855, and served as Associate Justice of the

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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

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- alternative history novel '' The Guns of the South'', "Senator Walker" is mentioned as opposing a bill to re-enslave

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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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