David Walker (Kentucky politician)

David Walker ( born April 13, 1763 Brunswick County, Virginia; † March 1, 1820 in Washington DC ) was an American politician. Between 1817 and 1820 he represented the state of Kentucky in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

David Walker was a brother of George Walker (1763-1819), who served in 1814 for a few months as a U.S. Senator for Kentucky. He was also the grandfather of James D. Walker (1830-1906), who was sitting 1879-1885 for Arkansas in the U.S. Senate. He attended both private and public schools and took part as a soldier in the War of Independence.

He later moved into the Logan County, where he held several local offices at the district administration and the District Court. Between 1793 and 1796 he was a delegate in the House of Representatives from Kentucky. During the British - American War of 1812 was Walker officer on the staff of Isaac Shelby. Politically, he was a member of the late 1790s, founded by President Thomas Jefferson later Democratic- Republican Party.

In the congressional elections of 1816, he was elected in the sixth electoral district of Kentucky in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington, where he became the successor of Solomon P. Sharp on March 4, 1817. In the elections of 1818 he was confirmed. He began his second term in Congress on 4 March 1819. However, he could not complete it because he already died on 1 March 1820. He was buried at the Congress Cemetery in Washington.