Walker, David Shelby

Life Span
to
Full name
David Shelby Walker
Place of Birth
Logan County, KY
Burial Place
Tallahassee, FL
Birth Date Certainty
Exact
Death Date Certainty
Exact
Gender
Male
Race
White
Sectional choice
South
Origins
Slave State
No. of Siblings
3
No. of Spouses
1
No. of Children
1
Family
David Walker (father), Mary Barbour Walker (mother), Philoclea Alston (first wife), Elizabeth Duncan (second wife) 
Occupation
Politician
Attorney or Judge
Political Parties
Democratic
Whig
Constitutional Union (1860)
Government
Governor
State legislature
State supreme court
State judge
Local government
Date Event
Florida elects David Shelby Walker as its first post-Civil War elected governor along with a new legislature
Reconstruction
Date Title
George William Curtis, "The Civil Rights Bill," Harper's Weekly Magazine, March 31, 1866, p. 194.
How to Cite This Page: "Walker, David Shelby," House Divided: The Civil War Research Engine at Dickinson College, https://hd.housedivided.dickinson.edu/node/44757.