Richard Wilde Walker (February 16, 1823 – June 16, 1874) was an American politician.
He also served as a Confederate States Senator from 1864 to 1865. he died in Huntsville at age 51.
In the 1992 Harry Turtledove science fiction-alternative history novel The Guns of the South, "Senator Walker" is mentioned as opposing a bill to re-enslave freedmen in a victorious Confederacy, but being blackmailed by the "Rivington" cabal into silencing himself.
"Alabama: Her History, Resources, War Record, and Public Men From 1540 to 1872," by Willis Brewer, published 1872, pp.
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