Walker Brooke

Brooke Walker ( born December 25, 1813 in Page Brooke, Clarke County, Virginia; † February 18, 1869 in Vicksburg, Mississippi ) was an American politician and U.S. Senator from Mississippi.

Career

Walker Brooke attended the public schools in Richmond, Virginia, and Georgetown, DC. Subsequently he graduated in 1835 from the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1838 and began to practice in Lexington.

He decided in 1848 to pursue a political career by being elected to the House of Representatives from Mississippi. After he was elected in 1850 to the Senate of Mississippi, where he worked until 1852. He was also elected as a member of the Whig Party in the U.S. Senate to fill the vacancy that was created by the resignation of Henry S. Foote. Brooke held the position of 18 February 1852 to 3 March 1853. He decided for re-election not to run, so he returned to his work as a lawyer. He then moved to Vicksburg in 1857, where he continued to practice.

He was a delegate to the 1861 state constitutional convention and was recorded in the same year in the Democratic Party. He was also a deputy in the 1861 provisional Konföderiertenkongress, where he served one year. He was also a member of the Permanent Military Court of Konföderiertenstaaten.

Brooke Walker died on February 18, 1869 in Vicksburg and was buried at the Vicksburg Cemetery.