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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—Mississippi WALKER, Robert John(1801—1869)Senate Years of Service: 1835-1845Party: Democrat WALKER, 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. Brown, George W. Reminiscences of Gov. R. J. Walker . 1902. Reprint. Freeport, NY: Books for Libraries Press, 1972. Cockrell, Thomas D. “United States Senators and Representatives from Mississippi, 1828-1836: An Introduction.” Journal of Mississippi History 49 (February 1987): 35-48. Dodd, William Edward. Robert J. Walker, Imperialist . 1914. Reprint. Gloucester, MA: Peter Smith, 1967. Harmon, George D. “President James Buchanan’s Betrayal of Governor Robert J. Walker of Kansas.” Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography 53 (January 1929): 51-91. Hartnett, Stephen. “Senator Robert Walker’s 1844 Letter on Texas Annexation: The Rhetorical Logic of Imperialism.” American Studies 38 (Spring 1997): 27-54. Jordan, H. Donaldson. “A Politician of Expansion: Robert J. Walker.” Mississippi Valley Historical Review 19 (December 1932): 362-81. Leftwich, George J. “Robert J. Walker.” Publications of the Mississippi Historical Society 6 (1902): 359-71. Shenton, James Patrick. Robert John Walker: A Politician from Jackson to Lincoln . New York: Columbia University Press, 1961. Tick, Frank H. “The Political and Economic Policies of Robert J. Walker.” Ph.D. dissertation, University of California, Los Angeles, 1947. Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present |
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