Walker, Robert J

Walker, Robert J

▪ American statesman
also called  Robert J(ames) Walker 
born July 19/23, 1801, Northumberland, Pa., U.S.
died Nov. 11, 1869, Washington, D.C.

      U.S. Senator from Mississippi (1835–45), secretary of the treasury (1845–49) during the Mexican War, and governor of Kansas Territory (April–December 1857) during the violent struggle over slavery there.

      As senator he advocated the annexation of Texas and helped to make national expansion the major issue in the 1844 presidential campaign. Appointed secretary of the treasury by a grateful President Polk, he financed the Mexican War, secured passage of the Walker Tariff Act (a concession to Great Britain in the Oregon boundary dispute), and prepared the statute that established the Department of the Interior.

      In Kansas, Walker promised the free-soilers fair elections and stated that the slavery question there would be decided by “climate, not politics.” This implication enraged the South and frightened the administration of Pres. James Buchanan. Walker resigned after refusing to accept the pro-slavery Lecompton Constitution.

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