Walton, W. M. (William Martin), 1832-1915

found: OCLC, May 19, 2014(access points: Walton, W. M.; Walton, William M.; Walton, William M., 1832-; Walton, William M., 1832-1915; usage: W.M. Walton; Wm. M. Walton; William M. Walton)

found: His Life and adventures of Ben Thompson, the famous Texan, 1956:t.p. (W.M. Walton)

found: Southwestern Historical Quarterly (SHQ) Online, March 28, 2008:v. 48, no. 3 (W.M. Walton of Austin, better known as Major Buck Walton, a leading criminal lawyer and once attorney general of Texas)

found: Texas State Historical Association website, 8 February 2017:Handbook of Texas Online, Thomas W. Cutrer, "Walton, William Martin" (WALTON, WILLIAM MARTIN (1832-1915). William Martin (Buck) Walton, attorney, Confederate army officer, and politician, was born in Canton, Mississippi, on January 17, 1832. At an early age he moved with his parents to Carroll County, Mississippi; After a brief career as a school teacher Walton enrolled in the University of Virginia in 1849 but returned to Carroll County in 1851. There he studied law in the office of James Z. George, and was admitted to the bar in 1852. Walton then moved to Texas by way of Arkansas and Indian Territory, arriving in Austin on February 19, 1853; In addition to practicing law Walton, a slave owner, farmed and, for a while, prospected for gold on the Llano River; Walton served through the first year of the Civil War as private secretary to Governor Francis R. Lubbock. On March 2, 1862, Walton enlisted as a private in Capt. William Rust's Company B of Col. George Washington Carter's Twenty-first Texas Cavalry (also known as the First Texas Lancers) and was soon elected first lieutenant. In Arkansas this regiment was united with two other regiments to become part of Parsons's Brigade; In 1866 he was elected attorney general of Texas but was removed from office by United States officials as "an impediment to Reconstruction." With the end of military rule, however, he returned to the practice of law; Walton died in Austin on July 1, 1915) - https://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/fwa47

Walton, W. M. (William Martin), 1832-1915

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