John R. Walker

John Randall Walker was a U.S. political figure from the state of Georgia. Walker was born near Blackshear, Georgia in 1874 and graduated from the Jasper [Normal College] in Jasper, Florida. He then studied law at the Georgia [School">Georgia (U.S. state)">Georgia [School of Law] and graduated with a Bachelor of Laws degree in 1898.
In 1912, Walker was elected to the 63rd [United States Congress] as a Democratic Party|Democratic] member of the United States [House of Representatives] and served two additional terms in that seat until losing his bid for renomination in 1918. He died in Blackshear on July 21, 1942, and was buried in a family cemetery in Pierce [County, Georgia].