Clifford Walker Explained

Clifford Walker
Party:Democratic
Order1:64th
Title1:Governor of Georgia
Term Start1:June 30, 1923
Term End1:June 25, 1927
Predecessor1:Thomas W. Hardwick
Successor1:Lamartine Griffin Hardman
Office2:Attorney General of Georgia
Term Start2:1915
Term End2:1920
Governor2:Nathaniel Edwin Harris
Hugh Dorsey
Preceded2:Warren Grice
Succeeded2:R. A. Denny
Alma Mater:University of Georgia
Birth Name:Clifford Mitchell Walker
Birth Date:July 4, 1877
Birth Place:Monroe, Georgia, US
Death Place:Monroe, Georgia, US
Restingplace:Old Baptist Cemetery
Spouse:Rosa Mathewson

Clifford Mitchell Walker (July 4, 1877 – November 9, 1954) was an American attorney and politician from the U.S. state of Georgia.

A graduate of the University of Georgia in 1897, he was a member of the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity.[1]

Walker served consecutive two-year terms as the 64th Governor of Georgia as a Democrat from 1923 to 1927, after winning with the support of the Ku Klux Klan.[2] Walker made few legislative advances during his term as governor, and is largely remembered for his membership in the KKK and his inclusion of KKK leadership in policy matters throughout his term.[3] His additional political service included the office of Mayor of Monroe, Georgia.

Before his gubernatorial terms, Walker served as the state attorney general from 1915 to 1920. He was also a co-founder of the Woodrow Wilson College of Law in Atlanta, Georgia. Walker made the first appointment of a poet laureate of the U.S. state of Georgia, that being Frank Lebby Stanton in 1925.

He was born in Monroe in 1877. Walker died at his home in Monroe in 1954 and was buried in the Old Baptist Cemetery in that same city.

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Notes and References

  1. Book: Pandora. 1895. University of Georgia. Athens, Georgia. 65.
  2. Lucket, Robert E. "Thomas Hardwick (1872–1944)" http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/government-politics/thomas-hardwick-1872-1944
  3. Huff, Christopher Allen. "Clifford Walker (1877–1954)" http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/government-politics/clifford-walker-1877-1954