Daniel Walker

Daniel Walker (born August 6, 1922) was the 36th Governor of the U.S. state of Illinois from 1973 to 1977. Walker was born in Washington, D.C. and raised near San Diego, California. He was the second Governor of Illinois to graduate from the United States Naval Academy. He served as a naval officer in World War II and the Korean War. A graduate of the Northwestern University School of Law, Walker later became an executive for Montgomery Ward while pursuing anti-machine Democratic politics in Chicago. Walker served as a clerk for Chief Justice of the United States Fred M. Vinson and was an aide to Illinois Governor Adlai Stevenson and campaign chairman for the 1970 Senate campaign of Stevenson's son Adlai Stevenson III. He rose to...