Meriwether Lewis Walker

Meriwether Lewis Walker (September 30, 1869 – July 29, 1947) was an American military officer in the United States Army with the rank of Brigadier General, who served as a Governor of the Panama Canal Zone from 1924 to 1928.

[1] He attended the United States Military Academy at West Point and graduated from this institution in the summer of 1893.

[1] He served as a director of the Army Field Engineering School from 1912 to 1914.

He served as chief engineer of Punitive Expeditions into Mexico from 1916 to 1917.

[1] Walker was married to Edith Colby Carey, the daughter of Brigadier General Asa B.