Walker, I. P. (Isaac Pigeon), 1815-1872

found: Wisconsin. Legislative Assembly. House of Representatives. Select Committee on the Milwaukee and Rock River Canal. Report, 1858:p. 14 (I.P. Walker)

found: Biog. dir. of the U.S. Congress, 1989(Walker, Isaac Pigeon; lawyer Springfield, Ill.; removed to Wis. 1841; served in territorial legislature; elected to U.S. Senate; b. Wheeling, W.Va. Nov. 2, 1815; d. Milwaukee March 29, 1872)

found: MWA/NAIP files(hdg.: Walker, I. P. (Isaac Pigeon), 1815-1872; usage: I.P. Walker; Mr. Walker; variant: James P. Walker)

found: Biographical directory of the United States Congress website, viewed September 29, 2021(Walker, Isaac Pigeon, a Senator from Wisconsin; born near Wheeling, Va. (now West Virginia), November 2, 1815; moved to Danville, Ill., in early youth; attended the common schools; was employed as a clerk in a store; studied law; admitted to the bar in 1834 and commenced practice in Springfield; served one term in the State house of representatives; presidential elector on the Democratic ticket in 1840; moved to Wisconsin Territory in 1841, settled in Milwaukee, and continued the practice of law; member, Territorial legislature 1847-1848; upon the admission of Wisconsin as a State into the Union was elected as a Democrat to the United States Senate; reelected in 1849 and served from June 8, 1848, to March 3, 1855; chairman, Committee to Audit and Control the Contingent Expenses (Thirtieth Congress), Committee on Revolutionary Claims (Thirty-first through Thirty-third Congresses); engaged in agricultural pursuits in Waukesha County; returned to Milwaukee and resumed the practice of law; died there March 29, 1872; interment in Forest Home Cemetery)