Richard Wilde Walker

{{Short description|American judge}} {{Use American English|date=March 2017}} {{Use mdy dates|date=March 2017}} {{Infobox officeholder | name = Richard Wilde Walker | office = [[Congress of the Confederate States|Confederate States Senator]]<br />from [[Alabama]] | term_start = February 17, 1864 | term_end = March 18, 1865 | predecessor = [[Clement Claiborne Clay|Clement Clay]] | successor = Constituency abolished | office2 = Deputy from [[Alabama]]<br />to the [[Provisional Congress of the Confederate States|Provisional Congress<br />of the Confederate States]] | term_start2 = February 4, 1861 | term_end2 = February 17, 1862 | predecessor2 = New constituency | successor2 = Constituency abolished | birth_date = {{birth date|1823|2|16}} | birth_place = [[Huntsville, Alabama]] | death_date = {{death date and age|1874|6|16|1823|2|16}} | death_place = Huntsville, Alabama | party = [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic]] }} '''Richard Wilde Walker''' (February 16, 1823 – June 16, 1874) was an American politician and judge in Alabama.

==Biography== Walker was born in [[Huntsville, Alabama]] in 1823. 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 [[Provisional Congress of the Confederate States|C.S. Congress]] from 1861 to 1862. He also served as a [[2nd Confederate States Congress|Confederate States Senator]] from 1864 to 1865. he died in Huntsville at age 51.

==In popular culture== 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.

==References== "Alabama: Her History, Resources, War Record, and Public Men From 1540 to 1872," by Willis Brewer, published 1872, pp. 355–356

==External links== * {{Find a Grave|6420371}}

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