Edward G. Walker
Edward G. Walker | |
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Edward G. Walker (1830–1901), son of David Walker (abolitionist), one of the first two black men elected to the Massachusetts State Legislature. | |
| Member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives from the 3rd Middlesex district | |
| In office 1867–1867 | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 1830 Edgefield, South Carolina |
| Died | 1901 (aged 70–71) Quincy, Massachusetts |
| Political party | Republican (before 1868) Democratic Negro Party (1896) |
| Parent(s) | David Walker Eliza Walker |
Edward Garrison Walker (1830–1901), also Edwin Garrison Walker, was an African American artisan in Boston who became an attorney; in 1861, he became one of the first black men to pass the Massachusetts bar. In 1866 he and Charles Lewis Mitchell were the first two African Americans elected to the Massachusetts state legislature. Walker was the son of Eliza and David Walker, the militant abolitionist and author of An Appeal to the Colored Citizens of the World (1829).