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Daniel J. Walker (August 6, 1922 – April 29, 2015) was an American lawyer, businessman and Democratic politician from Illinois. He was the 36th Governor of Illinois from 1973 to 1977. He was raised in San Diego and served in the Navy as an enlisted and an officer during World War II and the Korean War. He moved to Illinois between the wars to attend Northwestern University School of Law and entered politics there in the 1960s. Walker was perhaps best known for walking the state of Illinois in 1971 during his candidacy for governor and for being an outsider to Illinois machine politics. This resistance to the machine ended in a rare primary election defeat as an incumbent governor in 1976. His post political career was marked by high living, but marred by a guilty plea to bank fraud and perjury at the peak of the late 1980s savings and loan crisis. After a year and a half in federal prison, Walker retired to the San Diego metro area and authored several books until his death in 2015. == Early life and career == Walker was born in Washington, D.C., the son of Virginia May (Lynch) and Lewis Wesley Walker, who were both from Texas. He was raised near San Diego, California and was valedictorian when he graduated High School there in 1940.〔 He joined the Naval Reserve while still in high school, serving on a four pipe destroyer during the summers. His college plans at San Diego State College were interrupted when he was called to active duty in 1940 and served as an enlisted man on a minesweeper out of Point Loma, San Diego.〔Walker, 2007 p. 125.〕 In 1941 he took an exam to become an officer ranking fifth out of over three thousand that were tested. He was attending the Naval Academy Preparatory School in Norfolk when Pearl Harbor was attacked.〔 He graduated the United States Naval Academy in 1945〔Walker, 2007 p. 111.〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title= Dan Walker, 1945 )〕 and would later be the second governor of Illinois to graduate from Annapolis. After that he served as a naval officer near the end of World War II. He was recalled to the Navy during the Korean War and was communications officer on .〔 Walker moved to Illinois to attend Northwestern in 1947. A 1950〔 graduate of the Northwestern University School of Law, Walker served as a law clerk for Chief Justice of the United States Fred M. Vinson, and as an aide to Illinois Governor Adlai Stevenson II. Walker later became an executive for Montgomery Ward while supporting reform politics in Chicago. In 1970, Walker was campaign chairman for the successful U.S. Senate campaign of Adlai Stevenson III (son of Adlai II).〔Walker, Daniel. ''The Maverick and the Machine, Governor Dan Walker Tells His Story'' Southern Illinois University Press, 2007 ISBN 0-8093-2756-2〕 The National Commission on the Causes and Prevention of Violence appointed Walker to head the Chicago Study Team that investigated the violent clashes between police and protesters at the 1968 Democratic National Convention. In December, the team issued its report, ''Rights in Conflict'', better known as the ''Walker Report''. The ''Report'' became highly controversial, and its author well-known. The report stated that while protesters had deliberately harassed and provoked police, the police had responded with indiscriminate violence against protesters and bystanders, which he described as a "police riot". The ''Report'' charged that many police had committed criminal acts, and condemned the failure to prosecute or even discipline those police.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title= ''Walker Report'' summary – History of the Federal Judiciary: The Chicago Seven Conspiracy Trial )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Dan Walker (politician)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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