Civil War CSA Congressman. He was a United Representative from the State of Alabama. He was born one of four children as Richard Wilde Walker to John Williams Walker (1783-1823), who served as the Democratic-Republican United States Senator from the state of Alabama, the first senator elected by that state, and his wife Matilda Pope (1791-1835), in Huntsville, Alabama, on February 16, 1823. He had two brothers, Percy Walker (1812-1880), an Alabama politician, and LeRoy Pope Walker (1817-1884), who was the first Confederate States Secretary of War from February 25, 1861, to September 16, 1861. His father passed away due to failing health only a couple of months after his birth on April 23, 1823, at the age of 39, leaving his mother a widow. He was educated in the local common public schools and later pursued a career in politics and in law. He served in the Alabama State Legislature from 1851 to 1855, and he also served as an Associate Justice of the Alabama Supreme Court in 1859. During the American Civil War, he served the State of Alabama as a Delegate from Alabama to the Confederate Provisional Congress of the Confederate States from February 4, 1861, to February 17, 1862. He then served the State of Alabama as a Confederate States Senator from February 17, 1864, until the collapse of the Confederacy on March 18, 1865. Following the American Civil War and the fall of the Confederacy, he continued to be involved in politics and law until his death. He passed away in his native Huntsville, Alabama, on June 15, 1874, at the age of 51, and he was buried in Maple Hill Cemetery in Huntsville, Alabama. He was married to Mary Ann Simpson Walker in Lauderdale County, Alabama, on June 18, 1846, with whom he had four children. One of his children, his son, Richard Wilde Walker Jr. (1857-1936), served as a United States Circuit Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit from October 5, 1914, to September 1, 1930, and as a Senior Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit from September 1, 1930, to April 10, 1936. On an interesting note, the alternative history novel, "The Guns Of The South" (1992), which was written by the author Harry Norman Turtledove, mentions a character named Senator Walker who is opposing a bill to re-enslave freedmen in a victorious Confederacy, but at the same time is being blackmailed by the Rivington cabal into silencing himself.