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    Robert James Walker (July 19, 1801 – November 11, 1869) was an American lawyer, economist and politician. An active member of the Democratic Party, he...
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  • Robert, Rob, Bob or Bobby Walker may refer to: Robert Walker (actor, born 1888) (1888–1954) American actor Robert Walker (actor, born 1918) (1918–1951)...
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    Madam C. J. Walker (born Sarah Breedlove; December 23, 1867 – May 25, 1919) was an American entrepreneur, philanthropist, and political and social activist...
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    Robert Hudson Walker (October 13, 1918 – August 28, 1951) was an American actor who starred as the villain in Alfred Hitchcock's thriller Strangers on...
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    secret annexation negotiations with Texas near consummation, Senator Robert J. Walker of Mississippi, a key Tyler ally, issued a widely distributed and highly...
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    Robert James Walker, Sr. (February 2, 1929 – February 15, 2016) was a senior sailor in the United States Navy who served as the third Master Chief Petty...
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    USCS Robert J. Walker was a survey ship that served in the United States Coast Survey, a predecessor of the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey, from...
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  • Whigs. It was based on a report by Secretary of the Treasury Robert J. Walker. The Walker Tariff reduced tariff rates from 32% to 25%. Coinciding with...
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    The Madam C. J. Walker Manufacturing Company (Madam C. J. Walker Manufacturing Co., The Walker Company) was a cosmetics manufacturer incorporated in Indianapolis...
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    was 76,400. Its county seat is Huntsville. Initially, Walker County was named for Robert J. Walker, a legislator from Mississippi who introduced into the...
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    Phillip "P. J." Walker Jr. (born February 26, 1995) is an American football quarterback who is a free agent. He played college football at Temple, and...
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    Polk's secretary of the treasury, Robert J. Walker, became a vocal champion of creating the new department. In 1849, Walker stated in his annual report that...
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    J. Robert Oppenheimer (born Julius Robert Oppenheimer; /ˈɒpənhaɪmər/ OP-ən-hy-mər; April 22, 1904 – February 18, 1967) was an American theoretical physicist...
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    during the Mexican-American War. Walker County, Texas, was renamed for him after its original namesake, Robert J. Walker (no relation), sided with the Union...
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    entrance to the harbor. On the night of 20 January 1858, the USCS Robert J. Walker was at Pensacola when a major fire broke out at Fort Pickens. The cutter's...
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    James K. Polk (redirect from J. Polk)
    nomination, Wright also refused the vice-presidential nomination. Senator Robert J. Walker of Mississippi, a close Polk ally, then suggested former senator George...
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  • Jewish Sports Hall of Fame. "Equibase: Robert J. Frankel", July 2, 2011. Veromi "Robert Frankel" Privman, Jay. "Robert Frankel Dies At 68". ESPN, November...
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    Robert Walker, Baron Walker of Gestingthorpe, GBS, PC (17 March 1938 – 16 November 2023) was a British barrister and Justice of the Supreme Court of the...
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    Pennsylvania, but was raised by Robert J. Walker, his uncle, who was a Secretary of the Treasury and U.S. Senator. Walker served as a first lieutenant in...
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    free trade legislation passed the year before under his predecessor Robert J. Walker. He felt that there was a need to protect the American workman, who...
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    to endorse the pro-slavery Lecompton government. Buchanan appointed Robert J. Walker to replace John W. Geary as Territorial Governor, and there ensued...
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  • Pennsylvania, the daughter of Jonathan Hoge Walker and Mary Duncan Walker. Her siblings included Senator Robert J. Walker. In 1824, she married General William...
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    de facto slavery settlement. Upon taking office, Buchanan appointed Robert J. Walker to replace John W. Geary as territorial governor of Kansas, with the...
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  • Self Made: Inspired by the Life of Madam C. J. Walker is an American drama television limited series, based on the biography On Her Own Ground by A'Lelia...
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    advocated for the low tariffs. The Walker Tariff of 1846, named after Polk's Treasury Secretary Robert J. Walker, significantly reduced import duties...
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    President James Buchanan's appointee as territorial governor of Kansas, Robert J. Walker, although a strong defender of slavery, opposed the blatant injustice...
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    Robert Walker Macbeth RA (30 September 1848 – 1 November 1910) was a Scottish painter, etcher and watercolourist, specialising in pastoral landscape and...
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    Buchanan as Secretary of State, he helped convince Polk to appoint Robert J. Walker as Secretary of the Treasury. As vice president, Dallas sought to maneuver...
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    John Anthony Walker Jr. (July 28, 1937 – August 28, 2014) was a United States Navy chief warrant officer and communications specialist convicted of spying...
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  • – Fedora Records 2001: Rock the Night – Rooster Blues Richard J. Skelly. "Robert Walker Biography". AllMusic. Retrieved 2006-12-09. The Penguin Guide...
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