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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—North CarolinaFelix WALKER
(1753-1828)
WALKER, Felix, a
Representative from North Carolina; born on the south branch of the
Potomac River, in Hampshire County, Va. (now West Virginia), July
19, 1753; attended country school on the Congaree River, near
Columbia, S.C., and in Burke County, N.C.; moved with his father to
what became Lincoln County, N.C., and in 1768, to what became
Rutherford County, N.C.; was employed as a merchant’s clerk
at Charleston, S.C., in 1769; also engaged in agricultural
pursuits; in company with Daniel Boone and others formed the
settlement of Boonsboro, Ky., in 1775; clerk of the court of
Washington district (most of which is now in Tennessee) in 1775 and
1776 and of the county court of Washington County (now chiefly in
Tennessee) in 1777 and 1778; fought in the Revolutionary and Indian
wars; clerk of court of Rutherford County, N.C., 1779-1787; member
of the State house of commons in 1792, 1799-1802, and 1806; resumed
agricultural pursuits and was also a trader and land speculator in
Haywood County, N.C.; elected as a Republican to the Fifteenth
Congress and reelected to the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Congresses
(March 4, 1817-March 3, 1823); unsuccessful candidate for
reelection in 1822 to the Eighteenth Congress; moved to Mississippi
about 1824 and engaged in agricultural pursuits and trading; died
in Clinton, Hinds County, Miss., in 1828; interment probably in a
private cemetery.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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