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Walker, Robert James

lawyer, governor, United States senator, author, was born July 23, 1801, in Northumberland, Pa. In 1836 he was chosen a senator in congress from Mississippi, serving until 1845. In 1845 he was called upon to take charge of the treasury department, which he administered for four years. He was appointed, in 1857, governor of the territory of Kansas, which office he resigned. In 1863 he went to Europe and negotiated bonds of the government to the amount of two hundred and fifty millions of dollars. He was the author of Letters on the Finances and Resources of the United States. He died Nov. 11, 1869, in Washington, D. C.