A. S. Walker

Alexander Stuart Walker (August 18, 1826 – August 14, 1896) was an American attorney, judge and newspaperman, who was justice of the Supreme Court of Texas from March or April 1888 to January 1, 1889.

Early life and education Walker was born on August 18, 1826, near Brownsburg, Virginia, to John Cowan and Virginia Walker (née Stuart). He studied at Wabash and South Hanover College, graduating in 1850 and moving to Shelby County, Kentucky, until 1852, moving to the Greater Houston.

A peer of future Texas governor J. Pinckney Henderson, Walker was licensed to practice law in January 1853. He later moved to Georgetown, Texas, and in July, R. E. B. Baylor appointed him as its district clerk. He later returned to South Hanover and received an M.A.

Career In 1858, Walker was elected to the Seventeenth Judicial District of Texas. A Democrat, he served in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War, until 1862, when he won a race for a district judge role. Following her death, he married Mary Maxwell Bowers, having no children together. He was also a Presbyterian and Freemason. He died on August 14, 1896, aged 69, in Austin, and was interred at Oakwood Cemetery.