Robert Jarvis Cochran Walker (October 20, 1838 – December 19, 1903) was aRepublican member of theU.S. House of Representatives fromPennsylvania.
Robert Jarvis Cochran Walker was born nearWest Chester, Pennsylvania on October 20, 1838. He attended school atEast Hampton, Massachusetts, andCambridge, Massachusetts. He graduated from the law department ofHarvard University in 1858, was admitted to the bar in 1859 and commenced practice inPhiladelphia.
Walker served as director of the first school district of Pennsylvania, and was twice elected to the council of Philadelphia. He purchased theSaturday Evening Post in 1874 and was its editor for a short time.
He was engaged in the production ofoil; in 1875, he moved toWilliamsport, Pennsylvania, where he engaged in land, lumber and coal developments.
Walker was elected as a Republican to theForty-seventh Congress. He declined to be a candidate for renomination in 1882 but his name was presented by his friends.
He returned to Philadelphia in 1890 and became a manufacturingchemist.
Walker died in Philadelphia in 1903, and was interred in theLaurel Hill Cemetery.
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