Robert Jarvis Cochran Walker

Robert Jarvis Cochran Walker ( * October 20, 1838 in West Chester, Pennsylvania, † December 19, 1903 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania ) was an American politician. Between 1881 and 1883 he represented the State of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Robert Walker attended schools in East Hampton and Cambridge (Massachusetts ). After a subsequent law degree from Harvard University and his 1859 was admitted as a lawyer, he started working in Philadelphia in this profession. He was director of the first school district of Pennsylvania. In addition, he was elected twice to the City Council of Philadelphia. In 1874, he acquired the Saturday Evening Post newspaper, which he edited for a short time. Then he went into the oil business. Since 1875 he lived in Williamsport, where he was active among others in the timber industry and the coal business.

Politically, Walker member of the Republican Party. In the congressional elections of 1880 he was in the 16th electoral district of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of John I. Mitchell on March 4, 1881. Since he resigned in 1882 to further candidacy, he was able to complete only one term in Congress until March 3, 1883.

After the end of his time in the U.S. House of Representatives Robert Walker moved to Philadelphia, where he worked in the chemical industry. There he died on 19 December 1903.