Percy Walker (1812–1880) was an American politician from
Huntsville, Alabama
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.
He was graduated from the medical department of the
University of Pennsylvania
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at
Philadelphia
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in 1835. He began practicing medicine in
Mobile, Alabama
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. He served in the campaign against the
Creek Indians
The Muscogee, also known as the Mvskoke, Muscogee Creek or just Creek, and the Muscogee Creek Confederacy ( in the Muscogee language; English: ), are a group of related Indigenous peoples of the Southeastern WoodlandsMobile. He served as State's Attorney for the 6th judicial district.
He was elected to the State House of Representatives in 1839, 1847, and 1853, elected as a candidate of the American Party to the Thirty-fourth Congress (4 March 1855 – 3 March 1857). He declined to be a candidate for renomination in 1856.
He died in Mobile on 31 December 1880, and was interred in Magnolia Cemetery.