Walker and Jean McMillan, and was educated in Mazenod and at the University of Saskatchewan.
In 1956 he joined the cabinet of Premier Tommy Douglas as Attorney General and Provincial Secretary.
[3] After Douglas left to lead the federal NDP in 1961, Woodrow Lloyd became premier and the first universal medical care plan in Canada was introduced after the doctor's strike.
[3] After he left the cabinet in 1964, he resumed the practice of law in Saskatoon until 1984 when he retired to Victoria, British Columbia where he died in 1989.
He was survived by his wife, Rosa Rebecca Nagel (who died in Victoria in 2005), 4 children and many grandchildren, including future British Columbia MLA, Adam Walker.