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Richard Walker

Richard Wilde Walker

Born
  
February 16, 1823Huntsville, Alabama (
1823-02-16
)

Died
  
June 16, 1874(1874-06-16) (aged 51)Huntsville, Alabama

Richard Wilde Walker (February 16, 1823 – June 16, 1874) was an American politician.

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Biography

Walker was born in Huntsville, Alabama. He was the son of John Williams Walker, the brother of Percy Walker and LeRoy Pope Walker, and father of Richard Wilde Walker, Jr. Richard Walker, Sr. served in the Alabama state legislature from 1851 to 1855, and served as Associate Justice of the Alabama Supreme Court in 1859. Walker represented Alabama in the provisional C.S. Congress from 1861 to 1862. He also served as a Confederate States Senator from 1864 to 1865.

In the 1992 Harry Turtledove science fiction-alternative history novel The Guns of the South, "Senator Walker" is mentioned as opposing a bill to re-enslave freedmen in a victorious Confederacy, but being blackmailed by the "Rivington" cabal into silencing himself.

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