Prentiss Walker

Prentiss Lafayette Walker ( * August 23, 1917 in Taylorsville, Smith County, Mississippi; † June 5, 1998 in Magee, Mississippi ) was an American politician. Between 1965 and 1967 he represented the fourth electoral district of the state of Mississippi in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Prentiss Walker attended the public schools in Las Cruces ( New Mexico) and in his hometown of Taylorsville and in Mize (Mississippi). In 1936 he finished his education at Mississippi College in Clinton. During the Second World War he was a soldier from 1944 the U.S. Army and served in the Pacific. After the war he ran a chicken farm. Since 1937 he was the head of a supermarket. This activity he held until 1963. Politically, Walker member of the Republican Party. In 1960 he was on the board of the Hunting and Fishing Commission of the State of Mississippi. In 1964 and 1968 he was a delegate to the Republican National Conventions relevant.

In 1964 he was selected in the fourth district of Mississippi in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington, where he was the Democratic W. Arthur Winstead replaced on January 3, 1965. Walker was only the third Republican who was elected to this district in the House of Representatives, and the first since Jason Niles in 1872. Since he resigned in 1966 to further candidacy, he could until January 3, 1967, only a legislature pass in Congress. In the elections of 1966 he ran unsuccessfully against the incumbent James Eastland to its seat in the U.S. Senate. In this election, Walker defeated with 27% against 65 % of the vote. In 1968 he ran unsuccessfully for a return to the House of Representatives. Nor crowned with success was his candidacy as an independent candidate for the U.S. Senate in 1972. Afterwards he retired from politics. As a result, he went back to his private business. In addition to agricultural enterprises included the real estate business.