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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—MississippiRobert John WALKER
(1801-1869)
Senate Years of Service:
1835-1845Party: DemocratWALKER, Robert John, a
Senator from Mississippi; born in Northumberland, Pa., July 19,
1801; graduated from the University of Pennsylvania at Philadelphia
in 1819; studied law; admitted to the bar in 1821 and commenced
practice in Pittsburgh, Pa., the following year; moved to Natchez,
Miss., in 1826 and continued the practice of law; elected as a
Democrat to the United States Senate; reelected, and served from
March 4, 1835, to March 5, 1845, when he resigned; chairman,
Committee on Public Lands (Twenty-fourth through Twenty-sixth
Congresses); Secretary of the Treasury in the Cabinet of President
James K. Polk 1845-1849; declined the mission to China tendered by
President Franklin Pierce in 1853; resumed the practice of law;
appointed Governor of Kansas Territory in April 1857, but resigned
in December 1857; United States financial agent to Europe
1863-1864; again engaged in the practice of law at Washington,
D.C., and died there November 11, 1869; interment in Oak Hill
Cemetery.
Bibliography
American National Biography; Dictionary of American
Biography; Dodd, William E. Robert J. Walker,
Imperialist. Gloucester, Mass.: P. Smith, 1967; Shenton, James
P. Robert John Walker: Politician From Jackson to Lincoln.
New York: Columbia University Press, 1961; Hartnett, Stephen.
“Senator Robert Walker’s 1844 Letter on Texas
Annexation: The Rhetorical Logic of Imperialism.” American
Studies 38 (Spring 1997), pp. 27-54.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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