Amasa Walker was an American politician and economist. He was born in 1799 and died in 1875. He was a member of the Massachusetts Senate in 1849. He was Secretary of the State from 1851 to 1853. He represented Massachusetts in the US Congress as a Republican from 1863 to 1863. He was prominent in advocating new and reformatory measures, and was an authority on questions of finance. He published 'Nature and Uses of Money and Mixed Currency' and 'Science of Wealth, a Manual of Political economy'. Research Amasa Walker
Francis Amasa Walker was an American soldier and economist. He was born in 1840 and died in 1897. He was adjutant-general of the Second Army Corps during the American Civil War. He was commissioner of Indian affairs from 1871 to 1873. He was professor of history and political economy at the Yale Scientific School from 1873 to 1881, when he became president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He compiled the ninth and tenth censuses, and published 'Money, Trade and Industry', several works on political economy and a history of the Second Army Corps. Research Francis Walker
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