Duncan S. Walker

Duncan S. Walker (1794 – December 31, 1835) was an American lawyer and a Mississippi state legislator.

Biography Walker was a son of Jonathan Hoge Walker and Lucy Duncan who were married in 1790. Duncan S. Walker was their second of eight children and the oldest who survived to adulthood. Walker was originally from the Carlisle, Pennsylvania area and moved to Mississippi with his brother Robert J. Walker in the 1820s. Their prosperous cousin Stephen Duncan already lived in the lower Mississippi River valley. He, like his brother, was a Jacksonian Democrat.

In 1824 he was selected as a second lieutenant of the Natchez Fencibles militia company.

In 1828, Walker ran for a seat in the Mississippi House of Representatives from Adams County. He served in the 12th Mississippi legislature.