Richard Wilde Walker
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Richard Wilde Walker
Richard Wilde Walker (February 16, 1823 – June 16, 1874) was a prominent Confederate States of America politician.
Walker was born and died in Huntsville, Alabama. He was the son of John Williams Walker, the brother of Percy Walker and LeRoy Pope Walker, and father of Richard Wilde Walker, Jr. Richard Walker, Sr. served in the Alabama state legislature in 1851 and 1855 and served as an Associate Justice of the Alabama Supreme Court in 1859. He represented Alabama in the Provisional Confederate Congress from 1861 to 1862. Walker was a Senator from Alabama in the Second Confederate Congress from 1864 to 1865.
In the 1994 Harry Turtledove alternative history novel Guns of the South, A Senator Walker is mentioned as sponsoring a bill to re-enslave freedmen in a victorious Confederacy.
References
"Alabama: Her History, Resources, War Record, and Public Men From 1540 to 1872," by Willis Brewer, published 1872, pages 355-356
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Representative to the Provisional Confederate Congress from Alabama 1861 – 1862 |
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| Preceded by Clement C. Clay |
Confederate States Senator from Alabama February 18, 1864 – May 10, 1865 Served alongside: Robert Jemison, Jr. |
Defeat of the Confederacy |
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