Walker Brooke

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| name = Walker Brooke

| image = WBrooke.jpg

| office = Deputy from Mississippi
to the Provisional Congress
of the Confederate States

| term_start = February 4, 1861

| term_end = February 17, 1862

| predecessor = New constituency

| successor = Constituency abolished

| jr/sr2 = United States Senator

| state2 = Mississippi

| term_start2 = February 18, 1852

| term_end2 = March 3, 1853

| alongside2 = {{unbulleted list| John McRae 1852 | Stephen Adams 1852–1853}}

| predecessor2 = Henry S. Foote

| successor2 = Albert G. Brown

| office4 = Member of the Mississippi Senate

| term_start4 = 1850

| term_end4 = 1852

| office5 = Member of the Mississippi House of Representatives

| term5 = 1848

| birth_date = {{birth date|1813|12|25}}

| birth_place = Clarke County, Virginia, U.S.

| death_date = {{death date and age|1869|2|18|1813|12|25}}

| death_place = Vicksburg, Fourth Military District, U.S.

| resting_place = Cedar Hill Cemetery,
Vicksburg, Mississippi

| party = Democratic

| otherparty = Whig

| alma_mater = University of Virginia

}}

Walker Brooke (December 25, 1813 – February 18, 1869) was an American politician who served as a Deputy from Mississippi to the Provisional Congress of the Confederate States from 1861 to 1862. He was also a U.S. Senator from 1852 to 1853, representing the state of Mississippi.

Biography

Born on December 25, 1813, in Clarke County, Virginia, Walker Brooke was the son of Humphrey Brooke and Sarah Walker Page. He attended the public schools in Richmond, Virginia and Georgetown, D.C. In his early days he worked as a schoolteacher.{{Cite news |date=1976-04-22 |title=Kentuckians Were Prominent in Shaping Vicksburg History by Gordon Cotton |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/henry-county-local-kentuckians-were-prom/167050664/ |access-date=2025-03-02 |work=Henry County Local |pages=2}} He graduated from the University of Virginia at Charlottesville in 1835, studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1838 and commenced practice in Lexington, Mississippi. He was a member of the Mississippi House of Representatives in 1848 and was a member of the Mississippi Senate in 1850 and 1852.

Brooke was elected as a Whig to the U.S. Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Henry S. Foote and served from February 18, 1852, to March 3, 1853; he was not a candidate for reelection and resumed the practice of law.

In 1857 he moved to Vicksburg and continued the practice of law; he was a delegate to the Mississippi secession convention in 1861.{{Cite news |date=1963-07-01 |title=Delegate to Convention |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-vicksburg-post-delegate-to-conventio/167019805/ |access-date=2025-03-02 |work=The Vicksburg Post |pages=125}} He was elected a member of the Provisional Congress of the Confederate States from Mississippi in 1861 and served one year; he was then appointed a member of the permanent military court of the Confederate States.

He died from choking on a very large oyster in an attempt to win a "friendly wager."

References

External links

{{CongBio|B000872}}
{{Find a Grave|7133988}}

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