George Walker (politician, 1763)

George Walker (* 1763 in Culpeper County , Colony of Virginia , †  1819 in Nicholasville , Kentucky ) was an American politician of the Democratic Republican Party , who represented the state of Kentucky in the US Senate .

George Walker attended Virginia public schools and served as a soldier in the Continental Army in the Revolutionary War . In 1794 he moved to Kentucky, where he was in Jessamine County settled and Jura studied. He was inducted into the Bar in 1799 and began practicing as a lawyer in Nicholasville. In 1801 he worked as a general manager for the Kentucky River Company .

Walker was a member of the Kentucky Senate from 1810 to 1814 . After the resignation of US Senator George M. Bibb , he took his place in Congress on August 30, 1814 , but remained there as acting incumbent only until December 16 of the same year, when William T. Barry was elected as an official successor was.

George Walker, whose great-nephew James David Walker was also a member of the Senate from 1779 to 1785 as a representative of the state of Arkansas , died in Nicholasville in 1819 and was buried on the grounds of his estate there.

Web links

• George Walker in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)