Charls Walker

Charls Edward Walker (born December 24, 1923 Graham, Texas) was Under Secretary of the United States Department of the Treasury from 1969 to 1972, and Deputy Secretary of the Treasury in 1973 under John Connally.

Walker received his bachelors and MBA degrees from the University of Texas at Austin. He received a Ph.D. in economics from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania in 1955. He then was a professor for a time at the University of Texas at Austin. He then worked as an economist with the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia and as an executive with Republic National Bank of Dallas. In 1961 he became Executive Vice President of the American Bankers Association, a position he retained until 1969.

After leaving the Nixon administration Walker established a consulting firm. He has also taught at the LBJ School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas, the Wharton School, Georgetown University, Texas A&M University and Emory University. He later served as senior advisor to the Center for Deliberate Polling which has dual connections to the University of Texas and Stanford University.

Walker married Harmolyn Hart in 1949 and lived a very peaceful life.

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