Frank C. Walker

Frank Comerford Walker (born May 30, 1886 in Plymouth , Luzerne County , Pennsylvania , †  September 13, 1959 in New York City ) was an American politician ( Democratic Party ), who served in the cabinet of President Franklin D. Roosevelt as US Post Minister belonged.

After attending Gonzaga University in Spokane studied Walker at the University of Notre Dame in Indiana , where he made in 1909 his Jura Accounts. He then opened a law firm with his older brother Thomas. In 1913, Walker was part of a legislative session of the state Legislature from Montana to. During the First World War he fought with the rank of First Lieutenant on the Western Front before returning to his legal practice in Butte . In 1925 he moved to New York, where he became legal advisor and general manager of Comerford Theaters .

From 1931 Frank Walker began to be heavily involved in the Democratic Party. He was a founding member of the Roosevelt for President Society ; after Roosevelt's election to the supreme office of the state, Walker proposed to treasurer of the Democratic National Committee . From 1933 he belonged to the inner circle of the Roosevelt government, including as a member of the National Emergency Council .

In 1940 President Walker finally appointed Postmaster General to his cabinet . He held this office for five years; after Roosevelt's death on April 12, 1945, Walker resigned to allow the new President Harry S. Truman to select his own post minister.

During his time as minister, Walker continued to be active in party politics. He was the Democratic National Committee from 1943 to 1944 and was also a delegate to the Democratic National Convention in 1944 as again in 1948. After his tenure in Washington, DC , he was nominated as a substitute delegate for the first UN General Assembly .

Frank C. Walker died in New York City in 1959 and was buried in his hometown of Plymouth.

Web links

• Frank C. Walker in the Miller Center of Public Affairs of the University of Virginia (English)
• The Political Graveyard