James A. Walker

James A. Walker (1896)

James Alexander Walker (born August 27, 1832 in Augusta County , Virginia , †  October 21, 1901 in Wytheville , Virginia) was an American politician . Between 1895 and 1899 he represented the state of Virginia in the US House of Representatives .

Career

James Walker attended private schools in his home country and then graduated from the Virginia Military Institute in Lexington by 1852 . After a subsequent law degree at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville and his admission as a lawyer in 1856, he began to work in Newbern in this profession. In 1860 he became a public prosecutor there. During the civil war he served in various units in the Confederation Army , where he rose to Brigadier General. After the war he embarked on a political career as a member of the Democratic Party . He served in the Virginia House of Representatives in 1871 and 1872 . From 1878 to 1882 he was Lieutenant Governor of Virginia. He later switched to the Republican Party .

In the congressional election of 1894 , Walker was elected as a Republican in the ninth constituency of Virginia to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC , where he succeeded James William Marshall on March 4, 1895 . After re-election, he was able to complete two legislative terms in Congress until March 3, 1899 . During this time the Spanish-American War of 1898 fell . From 1897, Walker was chairman of the third electoral committee. In 1898 he was not re-elected.

After his time in the US House of Representatives, James Walker practiced law again. He died in Wytheville on October 21, 1901. His great-grandson M. Caldwell Butler also became a member of Congress.

See also

• List of Confederate Generals in the Civil War
• List of generals of the Union in the Civil War

Web links

• James A. Walker in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)
• James A. Walker in the database of Find a Grave (English)