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Years of service
  
1893-1933

Name
  
Meriwether Walker


Meriwether Lewis Walker

Born
  
September 30, 1869Lynchburg, Virginia (
1869-09-30
)

Commands held
  
Governor of the Panama Canal Zone

Battles/wars
  
Pancho Villa ExpeditionWorld War I

Died
  
July 29, 1947, Massachusetts, United States

Education
  
United States Military Academy


Allegiance
  
United States of America

Service/branch
  

Meriwether Lewis Walker (September 30, 1869 – July 29, 1947) was an officer in the United States Army with the rank of Brigadier General, who served as a Governor of the Panama Canal Zone from 1924 to 1928.

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Biography

Walker was born on September 30, 1869 in Lynchburg, Virginia as the son of Thomas Lidsay and Catherine Dabney Walker.

He attended the United States Military Academy at West Point and graduated from this institution in the summer of 1893. He was also commissioned a second lieutenant in the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.

He served as a director of the Army Field Engineering School from 1912 to 1914. He served as chief engineer of Punitive Expeditions into Mexico from 1916 to 1917. He was chief engineer of American Expeditionary Forces from August 1918 to August 1919. He was chief maintenance engineer of the Panama Canal from 1921 to 1924. He served as Panama Canal Zone Governor from 1924 to 1928.

He died on July 29, 1947.

Decorations

Here is the ribbon bar of Brigadier General Walker:

References

Meriwether Lewis Walker Wikipedia


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