Walter Walker (politician)

Walter Walker ( born April 3, 1883 in Marion, Crittenden County, Kentucky; † October 8, 1956 in Grand Junction, Colorado ) was an American politician of the Democratic Party, who represented the state of Colorado for a short time in the U.S. Senate.

After attending the public schools in his native Kentucky Walter Walker moved in 1903 to Grand Junction, Colorado has to offer. There he got into the newspaper business, where he editor and later managing director and then finally was first owner of the Grand Junction Daily Sentinel.

After the death of U.S. Senator Charles W. Waterman Walter Walker was appointed to succeed him in Congress. However, his tenure there did not last very long. He retired on 26 September 1932 in the Senate and resigned on 6 December of the same year from again, after he had tried in vain to the seat in the by-election. This went instead to the Republicans Karl Cortlandt Schuyler.

As a result, Walker turned back to the newspaper business. His only other political office he took over in the presidential election of 1936, when he belonged to the Electoral College, the U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt confirmed in his office.