1. Prentiss Lafayette Walker was an American farmer, businessman, and politician from Mississippi.
11 Facts About Prentiss Walker
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Prentiss Walker attended public schools in Taylorsville, Mize, and Las Cruces, New Mexico.
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In 1960, Prentiss Walker served on the executive committee of the Mississippi Game and Fish Commission under Governor Ross Barnett.
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In 1964, Prentiss Walker was a delegate to the Republican National Convention, which met in San Francisco, California, and he ran as a Republican in, in the central eastern part of the state.
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Prentiss Walker dropped in on a farm and introduced himself as a Republican candidate.
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Prentiss Walker ran well to Eastland's right even criticizing the veteran senator of being too friendly with US President Lyndon Johnson and not being tough enough to block integration-friendly judges in his position as chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee.
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Prentiss Walker's supporters included blacks in southwestern Mississippi, which came as a surprise because of Walker's open support for segregation.
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Prentiss Walker tried to unseat Montgomery in 1968 but got only thirty percent of the vote.
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When Prentiss Walker again ran for the Senate against Eastland in 1972, as an Independent, rather than a Republican, he drew only 14,662 votes.
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The Rockefeller-style Republican Gil Carmichael, a former critic of Prentiss Walker, trailed with 249,779 votes, as Eastland won handily with 375,102 votes or 58.1 percent.
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Prentiss and Dimple Walker are interred in Mize at Zion Hill Missionary Baptist Church Cemetery.