Felix Walker

Who was Felix Walker?

Felix Walker was a Democratic-Republican U.S. Congressman from North Carolina between 1817 and 1823.

Walker was born near the Potomac River in what was then Hampshire County, Virginia, now part of West Virginia. His family moved to near Columbia, South Carolina and then to Lincoln County, North Carolina and finally to present-day Rutherford County, North Carolina.

In 1769, he was hired as a merchant's clerk in Charleston, South Carolina. He worked as a farmer briefly and later joined Daniel Boone's company, which established the settlement of Boonesborough, Kentucky in 1775. He was named clerk of the court of Washington district of North Carolina in 1775 and held that post until 1778