George T. Walker

George Thomas Walker, Sr. (March 2, 1913 – June 17, 2011), was from 1958 to 1976 the president of the University of Louisiana at Monroe, known first as Northeast Louisiana State College and then as Northeast Louisiana State University, located in Monroe in northeastern Louisiana.

Background

Walker was born in the Wyatt Community of Jackson Parish near the Winn Parish line in north Louisiana, the second youngest of nine sons and two daughters of William Thomas Walker and the former Mary Elizabeth "Lizzie" Stovall (1877–1951). At the time of his mother's death in 1951, the obituary lists George Walker as a dean at Northwestern State University in Natchitoches and his youngest brother, William Stewart Walker as a lieutenant colonel in Vienna, Austria. Another brother, Edgar Lee "Ed" Walker (1901–1972), was a football coach at the University of Mississippi at Oxford, who led his team to an early Orange Bowl competition.

A Walker cousin, Morgan W. Walker, Sr., was an Alexandria businessman who was president and founder of Continental Trailways bus lines.

Thomas Walker

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