Richard Wilde Walker

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Richard Walker
Confederate States Senator from Alabama
In office February 17, 1864 – May 10, 1865
Preceded by	Clement Clay
Succeeded by	Constituency abolished
Personal details
Born	(1823-02-16)February 16, 1823 Huntsville, Alabama, U.S.
Died	June 16, 1874(1874-06-16) (aged 51) Huntsville, Alabama, U.S.
Political party	Democratic

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

Confederate States Senate
Preceded by Clement Clay	Confederate States Senator (Class 1) from Alabama 1864–1865 Served alongside: Robert Jemison	Constituency abolished

Confederate States Senators

Alabama: Clay; Jemison; Walker; Yancey
Arkansas: Garland; R. Johnson; Mitchel
Florida: Baker; Maxwell
Georgia: Hill; H. Johnson; Lewis
Kentucky: Burnett; Simms
Louisiana: Semmes; Sparrow
Mississippi: Brown; Phelan; Watson
Missouri: Clark; W. Johnson; Peyton; Vest
North Carolina: Davis; Dortch; Graham; Reade
South Carolina: Barnwell; Orr
Tennessee: Haynes; Henry
Texas: Oldham; Wigfall
Virginia: Caperton; Hunter; Preston

v t e Speakers of the Alabama House of Representatives

Alabama Territory 1817–1819	Moore J. Walker

State of Alabama 1819–	Dellet Owen Dellet Bagby Adair Oliver S. Walker Kelly Oliver Clay Gayle Penn Oliver McClung Bagby McClung Phelan S. Walker Baker D. Moore Erwin A. B. Moore L. Walker Rather Garrett R. Walker Jackson Meek Crenshaw Cooper McCraw Harrington J. Hubbard Stone Parsons Anderson Clements Pettus Clark Clements Waller Pettus Tunstall Martin Carmichael Merritt Lynne Merrill Miller Norman Beck Brown Fite Adams Ashworth Brewer Fite Lyons McCorquodale Drake Clark Hammett M. Hubbard

Persondata
Name	Walker, Richard Wilde
Alternative names
Short description	American politician
Date of birth	February 16, 1823
Place of birth
Date of death	June 16, 1874
Place of death

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