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William Stewart Walker
William Stewart Walker, usually known as Stewart Walker (October 6, 1914 – February 6, 1999), was a lieutenant colonel from Winnfield, Louisiana who, during World War II as a United States Army major, rescued 380 of his fellow soldiers from behind enemy lines in Belgium in December 1944. In 1964, he ran unsuccessfully as a Republican for Louisiana's 8th congressional district seat in the United States House of Representatives, a position now defunct.
==Large family==
Walker was born in the Wyatt Community of southern Jackson Parish just north of the Winn Parish line in north Louisiana, to William Thomas Walker and the former Mary Elizabeth "Lizzie" Stovall (1877–1951), Walker was descended from a large and influential family. William Thomas and Lizzie Walker married in 1896 and had ten other children: Charles Elmer Walker (1897–1941), Pyburn Elton Walker (1899–1987), Edgar Lee "Ed" Walker (1901–1972), Vester Walker (1902–1906), Gladys Oneta Walker (1904–1963), William Elmo Walker (1905–1956), L.Z. Walker (1907–1993), Grace Mae Walker (1909–1991), Edwin Olen Walker (1911–1978), and George Thomas Walker, Sr. (1913–2011).〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=George T. Walker )〕 At the time of his mother's death in 1951, the obituary lists Walker as a lieutenant colonel in Vienna, Austria. "Ed" Walker was a football coach at the University of Mississippi at Oxford who led his team to an early Orange Bowl competition, and Olen Walker had been a college football player. George T. Walker, the only sibling to survive William S. Walker, was a dean at Northwestern State University in Natchitoches and the retired president of the University of Louisiana at Monroe.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Mary Elizabeth "Lizzie" Stovall, Transport Cemetery records, Dodson, Louisiana )〕
Walker was a cousin of Morgan W. Walker, Sr., an Alexandria businessman who was president and founder of Continental Trailways.〔Obituary of Morgan W. Walker, Sr., ''Winn Parish Enterprise News'', Winnfield, Louisiana, February 23, 1983〕
Walker graduated from Northwestern State University. On September 1, 1940, he married the former Mary Elizabeth Abel (November 29, 1911 – September 2, 1999),〔 a music teacher in Winnfield and the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. P. K. Abel.
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