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John Williams Walker (1783-1823) lived near here and served as president of Alabama's First Constitutional Convention in 1819 and as Alabama's first U.S. Senator from 1819 to 1822. Walker County in northwest Alabama, created in 1823, was named in his honor. Four of his sons, Percy Walker, John James Walker, LeRoy Pope Walker, and Richard Wilde Walker, were prominent in Alabama politics.
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Meridianville, Alabama · United States
