Background
PARKER, Walter was born on March 6, 1873 in Memphis, Tennessee, United States. Son of Walter L. and Ella (Burr) Parker.
Louisiana State Museum Member Board of Curators
PARKER, Walter was born on March 6, 1873 in Memphis, Tennessee, United States. Son of Walter L. and Ella (Burr) Parker.
Member, Board of Curators, Louisiana. State Museum; Chairman, Bayou St. John Commission, New Orleans. Chairman, Costa Rica Group, TJ.S. Section, Pan American Commercial Conference of Inter-American High Commission.
V.- Chairman, Mississippi Valley Association, St. Louis. Vice-Chairman European Mission, World’s Cotton Conference, 1919. Assistant Secretary, United States Department of Commerce, for Inland Water Transportation, 1917-1918.
Economist, Fenner and Beane, New York-New Orleans. Former Executive Vice-President. and General Manager, New Orleans Association of Commerce, 1914-1924. Chairman, five good will missions to Latin American.
Financial Editor, New Orleans Times Democrat, 1905-1901?. Newspaper war correspondent in Cuba, 1398-1399. National. Chairman, National.
Flood Prevention and River Regulation Commission Author of many pamphlets on Flood Control, Latin American, Trade Development, the Economics of Mississippi Valley, etc. Diem.: Mexico Society of New Orleans (President). Jefferson Highway As3n.
(Organizer and Past President). India House, N Y.; Louisiana. Historical. Society; Pan American Society ■of New York.
Japan Society of New Orleans. Clubs: Young Men's Business. (Honorary Life, New Orleans), New Orleans Country, Recess (New Orleans).
Spouse Anita M. Hernandez, February 25.