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Walker, Freeman

United States senator, was born Oct. 25, 1780, in Charles City, Va. He was a senator in congress from Georgia from 1819 to 1821, and resigned. He died Sept. 23, 1827, in Richmond county, Ga.

Walker, George

United States senator, was born in 1768 in Culpeper county, Va. He was a senator in congress from Kentucky from 1814 to 1815. He died in 1819 in Nicholasville, Ky.

Walker, George

lawyer, banker, state senator, diplomatist, was born in 1824 in Peterborough, N. H. In 1857 he was elected to the Massachusetts senate; was re-elected, and in 1868 was a member of the lower house. He was instrumental in introducing the national system of banking into the state; engaged in business in Springfield, Mass., and became president of the Third National bank of that city. He died Jan. 15, 1888, in Washington, D. C.

Walker, George Leon

clergyman, author, was born in 1830 in Vermont. He is a congregational clergyman, pastor of a church in Hartford, Conn., from 1879; and the author of History of the First Church in Hartford, 1633-1883; Thomas Hooker: Preacher, Founder, Democrat; and Some Aspects of the Religious Life of New England.

Walker, George Ulm

lawyer, was born June 26, 1849, in Columbia, S. C.

He attended the primary school of Newberry, S. C.; Pleasant Ridge academy, Ala.; and the Southern university of Greensboro. He is one of the foremost lawyers of the south at Jacksonville, Fla.; has been assistant city attorney; and filled various other public positions of honor.

Walker, Gilbert Carlton

lawyer, banker, congressman, governor, was born Aug. 1, 1832, in Binghamton, N. Y.

In 1864 he went to Norfolk, Va. He became president of the Exchange National bank; and subsequently settled in Richmond. In 1869 he was elected governor of Virginia, serving four years. He was elected a representative from Virginia to the forty-fourth congress; and was reelected to the forty-fifth congress. He died May 11, 1885, in New York city.

Walker, Henderson

lawyer, jurist, governor, was born in 1660. He was a lawyer, judge of the supreme court, and president of the council, and introduced important reforms in the judiciary. He was governor of North Carolina from 1699 until his death. He died April 14, 1704, in Edenton, N. C.

Walker, Isaac P

United States senator, was born in 1813 in Virginia. He was a presidential elector in 1841, and was a senator in congress from Wisconsin, from 1848 to 1855. He died April 1, 1872, in Milwaukee, Wis.

Walker, James

clergyman, college president, author, was born Aug. 16, 1794, in Burlington, Mass. He was a unitarian clergyman, minister at Charlestown, Mass., in 1818-38, president of Harvard university in 1853-60, and the author of Lectures on Natural Religion; Lectures on the Philosophy of Religion; Sermons Preached in the College Chapel; and Discourses. He died Dec. 23, 1874, in Cambridge, Mass.

Walker, James Daniel

soldier, lawyer, United States senator, was born Dec. 13, 1830, in Logan county, Ky. He served in the confederate army as a colonel, and was solicitor-general of the state for a time. He was a presidential elector in 1876; and in 1879 took his seat as a senator of the United States from Arkansas for the term of six years.

Walker, James Murdock

lawyer, author, was born Jan. 10, 1813, in Charleston, S. C. He was a South Carolina lawyer, and the author of The Theory of Common Law; Tract on Government; The State versus Bank of South Carolina; and Roman Jurisprudence in the Law of Real Estate. He died Sept. 18, 1854, in Charleston, S. C.