George Walker (Kentucky)

George Walker ( * 1763 in Culpeper County, Virginia, † 1819 in Nicholasville, Kentucky ) was an American politician of the Democratic-Republican Party, who represented the state of Kentucky in the U.S. Senate.

George Walker attended the public schools in Virginia and served as a soldier in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War. In 1894 he moved to Kentucky, where he settled in Jessamine County and studied law. He was admitted to the bar in 1799 and commenced practice in Nicholasville as a lawyer. In 1801, he worked as an officer for the Kentucky River Company.

From 1810 to 1814 Walker was a member of the Senate from Kentucky. Following the resignation of U.S. Senator George M. Bibb, he took his place on August 30, 1814 in Congress, a, remained there as acting incumbents but only until 16 December of the same year, as with William T. Barry, an official successor elected had.

George Walker, whose great-nephew of James David Walker from 1879 to 1885 as the representative of the State of Arkansas was also a member of the Senate, died in 1819 in Nicholasville and was buried on the grounds of his estate there.