Abram Joseph Walker

A. J. Walker (November 24, 1819 – April 25, 1872)[1] was an American judge from Alabama was elected to the Alabama Supreme Court in 1855.[2]

A graduate of Nashville University,[2] Walker moved to Alabama in 1841 as a professor and taught mathematics, Latin and Greek.[2]

In 1856, Walker requested Congressman Sampson Willis Harris secure an appointment for John Pelham to the United States Military Academy.[3]

References
  1. "The South in the Building of the Nation: Biography K-Z". Pelican Publishing. Retrieved 20 July 2019.
  2. Garrett, William. "Reminiscences of Public Men in Alabama for Thirty Years", 1872.
  3. Brewer, Wilson. Alabama, Her History, Resources, War Record, and Public Men: From 1540 to 1872, 1872
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Preceded by
Samuel F. Rice		 Chief Justice of the
Supreme Court of Alabama		 Succeeded by
E. Wolsey Peck


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