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ROBERT WALKER

Robert James Walker was an American Cabinet officer. He was born in 1801 and died in 1869. Educated in the University of Pennsylvania, he studied law, and removed to Mississippi. He was Democratic US Senator from that State from 1836 to 1845. He favoured the annexation of Texas, and the same year refused the nomination for Vice-President. In 1845 President Polk called him to the Treasury Department which he conducted until 1849. He is identified with the 'Walker revenue tariff' of 1846. He favoured the warehouse system and the creation of the Interior Department. He was Governor of Kansas from 1857 until 1858, and during the American Civil War was US financial agent in Europe.
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