Background
Walker, Oliver M. was born in September 1898 in Alpine, Alabama, United States. Son of Samuel and Ella Belle (Mallory) Walker.
Walker, Oliver M. was born in September 1898 in Alpine, Alabama, United States. Son of Samuel and Ella Belle (Mallory) Walker.
Degree, University Alabama, 1917. Degree, Marion (Alabama) Military Institute, 1918. Bachelor of Science, United States Naval Academy, 1922.
Advertising salesman American Bureau Trade Extension, 1922, advertising manager, 1923. Organizer Washington Concrete Products Corporation, 1924, sales manager, 1924—1930, vice president, 1930—1943. Secretary, director Union Market Terminal, Washington, 1928—1935.
Organizer, president Walker & Dunlop, Washington and Baltimore, since 1935. Chairman emeritus; director member executive committee Title Guarantee Company, Baltimore, 1941—1975. President American Standard Life Insurance Company, 1953—1958.
Lecturer, speaker mortgage financing. president Washington Real Estate Board, 1949—1950. President mortgage council National Association Real Estate Boards, 1954—1955, chairman committee real estate econs, 1956—1960. Chairman board zoning appeals Montgomery County, Maryland, 1943—1947.
Trustee, president Whitehall Country School, 1944—1946. Trustee Landon School, 1950—1952, Naval Academy Foundation, 1968—1979.
Member of Mortgage Bankers Association American (governor 1952-1960, vice president since 1960, director 1961-1969, Certified Mortgage Bankers award 1974), Balboa Club (Mazatlan, Mexico), Rehoboth Beach Country Club, Army and Navy Country Club (Arlington, Virginia), Sulgrave Club, Army and Navy Club (Washington), Chevy Chase Club, Metropolitan Club.
Married Elizabeth Powell Dunlop, June 11, 1932. Children: Elizabeth Walker Edgeworth, Ann Walker Gaffney, O. Mallory Junior.