Lewis L. Walker

Lewis Leavell Walker ( * February 15, 1873 in Lancaster, Garrard County, Kentucky, † June 30, 1944 ) was an American politician. Between 1929 and 1931 he represented the state of Kentucky in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

After the Lancaster Academy and the Garrard College Lewis Walker studied at the Central University in Richmond. After a subsequent law degree in 1894 and its recent approval as a lawyer, he started in Lancaster to work in this profession. He also went into the banking industry. In 1901, Walker was prosecutor in Garrard County. Between 1907 and 1910 he was a legal representative of his hometown of Lancaster. In addition, he served from 1908 to 1915 as curator of the University of Kentucky in Lexington. In the years 1910 and 1911 he was a judge in the 13th Judicial District of his home state. He then practiced as a lawyer again.

Politically, Walker became a member of the Republican Party. In the congressional elections of 1928 he was in the eighth electoral district of Kentucky in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he succeeded the Democrats Ralph Waldo Emerson Gilbert took on 4 March 1929 that he had beaten in the election. Since he did not run in 1930, he was able to complete only one term in Congress until March 3, 1931. Then, his mandate fell back to Gilbert.

After his retirement from the U.S. House of Representatives Lewis Walker resumed the lawyer. Politically, he is no more have appeared. He died on 30 June 1944 in his native Lancaster and was also buried there.