Charles Walker

Charles W. Walker, Sr. (born November 8, 1947) was a Georgia State Senator. Charles Walker was first elected to the State Senate in 1990, and in 1996 he became the first African-American State Senate Majority leader in Georgia history. Walker is a Democrat and is from Augusta, Georgia. Walker owned a myriad of small enterprises under the name The Walker Group. One of Walker's first ventures was a convenience store called "Reklaw's", which is Walker spelled backwards. Walker started a newspaper called The Augusta Focus that served Augusta's black community. It often expressed opposing viewpoints to Augusta's only daily newspaper, The Augusta Chronicle. Walker is currently serving a ten year sentence in the minimum security facility at...