Abram Joseph Walker

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Template:Short description Script error: No such module "Unsubst". 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]

After the American Civil War, the Alabama legislature convened and elected Walker as chief justice of the state supreme court, along with associate justices Thomas J. Judge and William M. Byrd, effective January 1, 1866.[4]

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  2. ↑ a b c 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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