Background
Walker, Robert John was born on July 23, 1801 in Northumberland Pennsylvania. Son of Jonathan Hoge and Lucretia (Duncan) Walker.
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DEDICATION to My Children and Grandchildren A special note to my children, grandchildren, great grandchildren, my nieces, and nephews, and all of the Walker generations to come!The Way Things Were is a collection of short stories that I have written in order to help preserve the memory and history of a way of life that once existed in the 1900s (Twentieth Century). It was a time in the late 1940s and early l950s when we, Charles (Billy), Robert (Bobby), and Elaine (Chicken) were children growing up in Sebring, Florida and Millen, Georgia. I think the Walkers of the 2000s must have some information regarding the Walkers of the 1900s. I also want the future generations to know the principles and what it was like when I was a child: the atmosphere of the 1900s, the people and racial issues; nature and climate, animal and plant life; the working and living conditions of Black People; the economic and political situations of that time, and of course the conditions on the Home Farm of Grandpa, Alfred Walker, in Millen, Georgia.Grandpas daddy was Willis Walker and his wifes name was Bessie. Great Grandpa lived in Waynesburg, Georgia. Willis and Bessie had seven children: Alfred, Rosy, Charlie, Aaron, Marian, Sadie and Catherine.Grandma Louise had twelve brothers and sisters: Bessie, Mary, Sadie, Lillie, Flora, Ella, Willie, Johnny, Sam, Lee, James, and Nathaniel. Modfett was Grandma Louises maiden name, and she was born in Waynesburg, GeorgiaGrandpa (Alfred Walker), born June 16, 1871 in Waynesburg, Georgia, moved to Millen, Georgia in 1916 when Daddy (Charlie Walker) was five years old. That was the year that Uncle Albert accidentally hit Daddy on the head with an axe while cutting wood.Grandpa (Alfred Walker) had ten children by two wives, Mary and Louise: Ezekiel, Hattie, Nellie, James and Lila; Johnny, Albert, Charlie, Willis, and Louise. (Charlie, my daddy, was born May 16, 1911.)In 1926-27 Grandpa Alfred bought the Walkers farmland in Millen, G
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secretary of the treasury senator
Walker, Robert John was born on July 23, 1801 in Northumberland Pennsylvania. Son of Jonathan Hoge and Lucretia (Duncan) Walker.
Graduated from the University Pennsylvania, 1819.
Admitted to Pittsburgh bar, 1821. Nominated Andrew Jackson for United States President Pennsylvania Democratic Convention, 1824. Moved to Natchez, Mississippi, 1826.
Member United States Senate from Mississippi, 1835-1845, conspicuous in debates connected with surplus revenues and “American system,” credited with passage of permanent preemption law of 1841, introduced and put through Senate resolution calling for recognition of independence of Texas, 1837, leader Texas annexationists, drafted compromise resolutions which finally broke deadlock in Senate over annexation, 1845.
Head of Democratic Campaign Committee, Washington, District of Columbia, 1844. Circulated pamphlet The South in Danger (characterized Whigs as anti-slavery), 1844.
United States Secretary of treasury under President James K. Polk, 1845-1849, established independent treasury system, advocated free trade in report on state of finances, 1845, largely responsible for framing Tariff Bill of 1846 (lowered most tariffs), carried out financing of Mexican War, established warehouse system for handling imports. Mainly responsible for creation of Department of Interior, 1849.
Governor Kansas Territory, April-December 1857, resigned when Lecompton Constitution rejected.
Unionist in Civil War. Proprietor (with F. P. Stanton) and contributor to Continental Monthly, 1862-1864. United States financial agent to Europe, 1863, 64.
Concerned with peace parleys at Montreal, Quebec, Canada, 1864-1865.
Robert John Walker has been listed as a noteworthy senator, secretary of the treasury by Marquis Who's Who.
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Member United States Senate from Mississippi, 1835-1845, conspicuous in debates connected with surplus revenues and “American system,” credited with passage of permanent preemption law of 1841, introduced and put through Senate resolution calling for recognition of independence of Texas, 1837, leader Texas annexationists, drafted compromise resolutions which finally broke deadlock in Senate over annexation, 1845.
Married Mary Bache, April.
