Felix Walker (politician, 1753)

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Felix Walker (born July 19, 1753 in Hampshire County , Colony of Virginia , †  1828 in Clinton , Mississippi ) was an American politician . Between 1817 and 1823 he represented the state of North Carolina in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Born in what is now West Virginia , Felix Walker grew up during the British colonial era. He attended schools in nearby Columbia , South Carolina and Burke County , North Carolina. He then lived in North Carolina for some time before working in Charleston in 1769 in commerce. He was also involved in agriculture. In 1775 he was one of the founders of the city of Boonesboro in the later state of Kentucky, along with Daniel Boone and a few others . In 1775 and 1778, Walker was a bailiff in the Washington District , which is now largely part of Tennessee . At times he also took part in the War of Independence and some Indian Wars . Between 1779 and 1787 he was an administrator in Rutherford County .

Between 1792 and 1806 Walker was a member of the North Carolina House of Representatives on several occasions . In the late 1790s he joined the Democratic Republican Party founded by Thomas Jefferson . At that time he was also involved in agriculture, trader and land speculator in Haywood County . In the congressional election of 1816 , Walker was elected to the United States House of Representatives in Washington, DC , in the twelfth constituency of North Carolina , where he succeeded Israel Pickens on March 4, 1817 . After two re-elections, he was able to complete three legislative terms in Congress by March 3, 1823 . During this time, the Missouri Compromise was passed there in 1820 . Walker wrote a speech on this subject that went down in history as contradicting and nonsensical.

In 1822, Felix Walker was not re-elected to Congress. Around 1824 he moved to Mississippi, where he worked in agriculture and trade. He died in the local city of Clinton in 1828; the exact date of his death is not known.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ A Century of Lawmaking for a New Nation: US Congressional Documents and Debates, 1774-1875
personal data
SURNAME Walker, Felix
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American politician
DATE OF BIRTH July 19, 1753
PLACE OF BIRTH Hampshire County , Virginia
DATE OF DEATH 1828
Place of death Clinton , Mississippi