Richard Wilde Walker Jr.
Richard Wilde Walker Jr. | |
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Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit | |
In office October 5, 1914 – September 1, 1930 | |
Appointed by | Woodrow Wilson |
Preceded by | David Davie Shelby |
Succeeded by | Samuel Hale Sibley |
Personal details | |
Born | Florence, Alabama | March 11, 1857
Died | April 10, 1936 | (aged 79)
Political party | Democratic |
Richard Wilde Walker Jr. (March 11, 1857 – April 10, 1936) was an associate justice of the Alabama Supreme Court and on the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit.
Personal
Richard Wilde Walker Jr., was born on March 11, 1857, in Huntsville, Madison County, Alabama. He was the son of Richard Wilde Walker, Sr., and his wife, Mary Ann Simpson Walker. He was a grandson of John Williams Walker and nephew of LeRoy Pope Walker and Percy Walker. On January 22, 1886, he married Shelby White (January 14, 1862 - March 12, 1949, daughter of Addison and Sarah White) in Huntsville, Alabama. Both are buried in Maple Hill Cemetery, Huntsville.
Education
Walker attended Washington and Lee College in Lexington, Virginia, for only one year. After this he went to Princeton College in New Jersey, where he achieved scholarly distinction and graduated in 1877 (his father and paternal grandfather also graduated from Princeton). He attended Columbia Law School in New York City for one session. He was admitted to the bar at Huntsville, Alabama, in the fall of 1877.
Career
Walker practiced law in St. Louis, Missouri, for about one year. In 1881, he went to New York City where he practiced law for over two years. He returned to Huntsville in early 1884.
On February 23, 1891, just shy of 34 years of age, Walker was appointed by the governor to the office of associate justice of the Supreme Court of Alabama. In 1914, he was appointed to the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. He reached senior status in 1930 and remained with the court until his death.
References
- "Memorial Record of Alabama: A Concise Account of the State's Political, Military, Professional and Industrial Progress, Together With the Personal Memoirs of Many of Its People," Volume 2, published by Brant & Fuller in Madison, WI (1893), pp. 765–766.
- U. S. Census Records 1860–1930.
- 1857 births
- 1936 deaths
- Politicians from Huntsville, Alabama
- Columbia Law School alumni
- Supreme Court of Alabama justices
- Judges of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
- United States court of appeals judges appointed by Woodrow Wilson
- 20th-century American judges
- Walker family
- Lawyers from Huntsville, Alabama