| 词条 | Prentiss Walker |
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| name = Prentiss Lafayette Walker | image name = Prentiss Walker.jpg | birth_date = {{birth date|1917|8|23}} | birth_place = Taylorsville, Smith County Mississippi, USA | death_date = {{death date and age|1998|6|5|1917|8|23}} | death_place =Magee, Simpson County, Mississippi, USA | resting_place=Zion Hill Missionary Baptist Church Cemetery in Magee, Mississippi | state = Mississippi | district = 4th | term_start = January 3, 1965 | term_end = January 3, 1967 | preceded = W. Arthur Winstead | succeeded = Gillespie V. Montgomery | party = Republican | spouse = Dimple Howell Walker | children =Treta Walker Butler Jan Walker Magee | religion = | alma_mater=Mississippi College | occupation=Farmer | branch=United States Army | battles=World War II | footnotes= }} Prentiss Lafayette Walker (August 23, 1917 – June 5, 1998) was an American farmer, businessman, and politician from Mississippi. In 1964, he became the first Republican of the 20th century to be elected to the United States House of Representatives from his home state. Early lifeWalker was born in Taylorsville in Smith County in south-central Mississippi. He attended public schools in Las Cruces, New Mexico, and in Taylorsville and Mize, also in Smith County. In 1936, he attended Southern Baptist-affiliated Mississippi College in Clinton, Mississippi. During World War II, he served in the US Army in the Pacific Theater of Operations. Then, he returned to his previous work as a chicken farmer in Smith County and became president of Walker Egg Farms, Inc., based in Mize. From 1937 to 1963, he was the owner of Walker's Supermarket. In 1960, Walker served on the executive committee of the Mississippi Game and Fish Commission under Governor Ross Barnett. Prentiss Walker Lake (originally called Ross Barnett Lake) near Mize is named in his honor.[1] Political careerIn 1964, Walker was a delegate to the Republican National Convention, which met in San Francisco, California, and he ran as a Republican in {{ushr|MS|4}}, in the central eastern part of the state. He unseated 11-term incumbent W. Arthur Winstead by some 7000 votes, an 11% margin, the first Republican breakthrough in Mississippi since Elza Jeffords served a term in Congress from 1883 to 1885. Walker's victory is considered to have been strongly influenced by the campaign of Barry Goldwater, who carried Mississippi in the 1964 presidential election with 87% of the vote. Goldwater won many of the counties in the district with greater than 90% of the vote; two, Holmes and Noxubee counties, gave him a staggering 96.6%, tied for his best showing in the nation.[2] At a Republican fundraiser at the Mississippi Coliseum in the capital city of Jackson on June 20, 1983, US President Ronald W. Reagan would tell the following anecdote:
Walker relinquished his House seat after only one term. He instead challenged U.S. Senator James Eastland. He ran well to Eastland's right and accused the veteran senator of being too friendly with US President Lyndon Johnson and of not doing enough to block integration-friendly judges in his position as chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee. Like Eastland, Walker had voted against the Voting Rights Act of 1965 and focused only on the white vote in his Senate race. In the words of Claude Ramsey, president of the Mississippi AFL-CIO, Walker tried to "outsegregate" Eastland, but most white voters stayed with Eastland,[4] who finished with 65.6% of the vote.[5] With 105,652 votes, Walker polled 26.7% at the general election. His supporters included blacks in southwestern Mississippi, which came as a surprise because of Walker's open support for segregation. Black voters had entered the political process under the Voting Rights Act of 1965 and carried Claiborne and Jefferson Counties for Walker in protest of Eastland as a "Democratic Regular."[5] Years later, Wirt Yerger, the chairman of the Mississippi Republican Party in the 1960s, said that Walker's decision to relinquish his House seat after one term for the vagaries of a Senate race against Eastland was "very devastating" to the growth of the Republican Party in Mississippi.[6] In 1966, Mississippi House Representative Lewis McAllister of Meridian, the first Republican elected to the Mississippi House of Representatives since Reconstruction, sought to hold Walker's House seat for the Republican, but victory went to fellow State Representative Gillespie V. "Sonny" Montgomery, also of Meridian, who held the seat for 30 years.[7] Walker tried to unseat Montgomery in 1968 but got only 30% of the votes. When Walker again ran for the Senate against Eastland in 1972, as an Independent, rather than a Republican, he drew only 14,662 votes (2.3%). The Moderate Republican Gil Carmichael, a former critic of the conservative Walker, trailed with 249,779 votes (38.7%), as Eastland won handily, 375,102 (58.1%).[8] Private lifeWalker and his wife, the former Dimple Howell (1919–2013), the last surviving of six children of the former Emily Dorilla Johnson (1880–1977) and John Fleming Howell (1882–1967), had two daughters, Treta Walker Butler and husband James of Mize and Jan Walker Magee of Magee, Mississippi. Prentiss and Dimple Walker are interred in Mize at Zion Hill Missionary Baptist Church Cemetery.[9][10] {{Portalbar|Biography|Mississippi|New Mexico|Business and Economics|Politics|Conservatism|United States Army|World War II}}Sources
References1. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.impact601.com/view/full_story_sports/9733343/news_sports|title=New sign dedicated at Mize Lake|author=Sherry Soelman|accessdate=February 5, 2018}} 2. ^ 3. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.museumofhumor.com/Reagan.htm|title=The Humor of Ronald Reagan|publisher=museumofhumor.com|accessdate=May 5, 2014}} 4. ^{{cite web|url=https://www.academia.edu/2630532/_Right_Turn_The_Republican_Party_and_African-American_Politics_in_Post-1965_Mississippi|title=Chris Danielson, "Right Turn? The Republican Party and African-American Politics in Post-1965 Mississippi"|publisher=academia.edu|accessdate=May 5, 2014}} 5. ^[https://books.google.com/books?id=C4Jio5kajiwC&source=gbs_navlinks_s Emilye Crosby (2006), A Little Taste of Freedom: The Black Freedom Struggle in Claiborne County, Mississippi], University of North Carolina Press, pp. 195-196. 6. ^Billy Hathorn, "Challenging the Status Quo: Rubel Lex Phillips and the Mississippi Republican Party (1963-1967)", The Journal of Mississippi History, XLVII, No. 4 (November 1985), p. 256 7. ^"Challenging the Status Quo", p. 258. 8. ^1 {{cite web|url=http://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=6502|title=Walker, Prentiss|publisher=ourcampaigns.com|accessdate=May 5, 2014}} 9. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.tutorfuneralhome.com/obituaries/dimple-walker-mize-ms|title=Dimple Walker, Mize, MS|publisher=Tutorfuneralhome.com|accessdate=August 19, 2017}} 10. ^{{cite web|url=https://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=Walker&GSfn=Dimple&GSbyrel=all&GSdy=2013&GSdyrel=in&GSob=n&GRid=50458886&df=all&|title=Dimple Walker Howell|publisher=Findagrave.com|accessdate=August 19, 2017}} External links{{Congbio|W000065}}
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