Amasa Walker

Amasa Walker

Amasa Walker (born May 4, 1799 in East Woodstock , Windham County , Connecticut , †  October 29, 1875 in North Brookfield , Massachusetts ) was an American politician . In 1862 and 1863 he represented the state of Massachusetts in the US House of Representatives .

Career

While still a child, Amasa Walker came to North Brookfield, Massachusetts with his parents, where he attended public schools. In 1825 he moved to Boston , where he worked in commerce until 1840. Politically, he initially joined the Democratic Party . In May 1835 he was a delegate to the Democratic National Convention in Baltimore , where Martin Van Buren was nominated as a presidential candidate. In 1843 he was a delegate to the international peace conference in London and then in 1849 to the one in Paris . Between 1842 and 1848 he taught political economy at Oberlin College in Ohio . In 1849 he was a member of the House of Representatives from Massachusetts ; In 1850 he was a member of the State Senate . As Secretary of the Commonwealth in 1851 and 1852, he was the executive officer of the state government of Massachusetts. In 1853 he was a delegate to a meeting to revise the state constitution . He then gave lectures in political economics at Harvard University between 1853 and 1860 . In the meantime, Walker had joined the Republican Party , founded in 1854 . In 1860 he was again a member of the House of Representatives of his state.

After the death of MP Goldsmith Bailey , Walker was elected as his successor to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC , where he took up his new mandate on December 1, 1862, when the by-election was due for the ninth seat of Massachusetts . Since he was no longer running in the regular congressional elections of 1862 , he could only end the current legislative period in Congress until March 3, 1863 . This time was marked by the events of the civil war . After his time in the US House of Representatives, Amasa Walker returned to teaching. Until 1859 he was lecturer in economic policy at Amherst College . He also published several books on the subject. He died in North Brookfield on October 29, 1875.

Web links

• Amasa Walker in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)
• Amasa Walker in the database of Find a Grave (English)
• Literature by and about Amasa Walker in the WorldCat bibliographic database