Background
Walls, Benjamin Carmage was born on October 28, 1908 in Crisp County, Georgia, United States. Son of Benjamin Gaff and Anna (Byrd) Walls.
newspaper publishing executive
Walls, Benjamin Carmage was born on October 28, 1908 in Crisp County, Georgia, United States. Son of Benjamin Gaff and Anna (Byrd) Walls.
Educational public schools, Florida.
Business manager, Orlando (Florida) Newspaper, Inc., 1934-1940; public, Macon (Georgia) Telegraph News, 1940-1947; president, General Newspapers, Inc., Gadsden, Alabama, 1945-1959; president, Southern Newspapers, Inc., Montgomery, Alabama, 1951-1969; also director. Public, Montgomery (Alabama) Advertising-Journal, 1963-1969; Chairman of the Board, director, Galveston Newspapers, Inc., Texas owner, Walls Investment Company, Houston. Board directors Texas City Newspapers, Inc.
President Macon Area Development Commission, 1943-1944, Macon Chamber of Commerce, 1945. Trustee Birmingham-Southern College, 1971-1977. Former president, director Public Welfare Foundation, Washington, Jefferson Pilot Publications, Greensboro, North Carolina.
Former director Jefferson Pilot Corporation, Greensboro, Jefferson Pilot Life Insurance Company, Greensboro. Member Southern Newspaper Publications Association (former director), Society Professional Journalists, The Houstonian.
Married Odessa Dobbs (divorced). Children: Carmage Lee, Ronald Eugene (deceased), Mark Thomas (deceased), Dinah Jean Garcich. Married Martha Ann Williams, January 2, 1954.
Children: Byrd Cooper, Lissa Walls Vahldiek.