Meriwether Lewis Walker

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|name = Meriwether Lewis Walker

|birth_date = {{birth date|1869|09|30}}

|death_date = {{death date and age|1947|07|29|1869|09|30}}

|birth_place = Lynchburg, Virginia

|death_place = Massachusetts

|image = Meriwether Lewis Walker.jpg

|order = 4th

|title= Governor of the Panama Canal Zone

| module = {{Infobox military person | embed=yes

|allegiance = {{flagicon|United States}}United States of America

|branch = File:United States Department of the Army Seal.svg United States Army

|serviceyears = 1893–1933

|rank = 25px Brigadier General

|servicenumber = 0-419

|unit =

|battles = Pancho Villa Expedition
World War I

|awards = Distinguished Service Medal

|relations =

}} }}

Meriwether Lewis Walker (September 30, 1869 – July 29, 1947) was an American military officer in the United States Army with the rank of Brigadier General, who served as a Governor of the Panama Canal Zone from 1924 to 1928.

Biography

Walker was born on September 30, 1869, in Lynchburg, Virginia as the son of Thomas Lidsay and Catherine Dabney Walker.

He attended the United States Military Academy at West Point and graduated from this institution in the summer of 1893. He was also commissioned a second lieutenant in the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.

He served as a director of the Army Field Engineering School from 1912 to 1914. He served as chief engineer of Punitive Expeditions into Mexico from 1916 to 1917. He was chief engineer of American Expeditionary Forces from August 1918 to August 1919. He was chief maintenance engineer of the Panama Canal from 1921 to 1924. He served as Panama Canal Zone Governor from 1924 to 1928.

Walker was married to Edith Colby Carey, the daughter of Brigadier General Asa B. Carey.{{cite web |url=https://sibertancestry.org/Alphabet/Cary/C/Cary/AsaBaconCarey.html |title=Brigadier General Asa Bacon Carey (1835–1912) |date=May 12, 2023 |website=Sibert Ancestry.org |access-date=November 19, 2023}}

He died on July 29, 1947.{{cite web |url=http://www.pancanal.com/eng/history/biographies/walker.html |title=Meriwether Lewis Walker |date= |accessdate=2016-11-06 |quote= |publisher=Panama Canal Authority }}

Decorations

Here is the ribbon bar of Brigadier General Walker:

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1st Row \|colspan="4"\|Army Distinguished Service Medal \|colspan="4"\|Mexican Service Medal \|colspan="4"\|World War I Victory Medal with two battle Clasps \|colspan="4"\|Officer of the Legion of Honour (France)

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1st Row

|colspan="4"|Army Distinguished Service Medal

|colspan="4"|Mexican Service Medal

|colspan="4"|World War I Victory Medal with two battle Clasps

|colspan="4"|Officer of the Legion of Honour (France)