Percy Walker

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Percy Walker (* December 1812 in Huntsville , Mississippi Territory , United States , † December 31, 1880 in Mobile , Alabama ) was an American doctor and politician.

Career

Percy Walker, son of John Williams Walker and Matilda Pope, was born in December 1812 in Huntsville, now in Madison County , Alabama. After studying, he graduated from the University of Pennsylvania Medical School in Philadelphia in 1835 . He then opened a doctor's office in Mobile, Alabama.

Walker took part in the campaign against the Creek in 1836 , during which they were forcibly driven into Indian territory west of the Mississippi. Then he reoriented himself and studied law . After completing his Bachelor of Laws , he was admitted to the bar in Alabama and practiced as such in Mobile. Over time, he became a District Attorney for the Sixth Judicial District. He was also a member of the Alabama House of Representatives in 1839, 1847, and 1853. He was also elected as a candidate for the American Party in the forty-third United States Congress. There he exercised his office between March 4, 1855 and March 3, 1857. In the elections of 1856 he no longer ran.

Percy Walker died on December 31, 1880 in Mobile, Alabama. He was buried in Magnolia Cemetery.

family

Percy's grandfather was LeRoy Pope , founder of Huntsville, Alabama. His father, John Williams Walker, was a US Senator from Alabama. Percy also had two brothers, Richard Wilde Walker and LeRoy Pope Walker . His brother Richard Wilde was a delegate in the Provisional Confederate Congress and Senator of the Confederate States, with his brother LeRoy Pope being the first Minister of War of the Confederate States of America. Percy also had a nephew, Richard Wilde Walker, Jr. He was a judge on the Alabama Supreme Court , and later on the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit . Percy is also the great-uncle of Richard Walker Bolling , a US MP for the state of Missouri .

Web links

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