California State Officials Biographies 1911

GEORGE S. WALKER

Submitted by Nancy Pratt Melton

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COMMISSIONER OF BUILDING AND LOAN ASSOCIATIONS
GEORGE S. WALKER (Republican) was born in Santa Rosa, California, September 21, 
1874, and educated in the public schools of this State; he made his home in Los 
Gatos, Santa Clara County, engaged for a time in the newspaper printing 
business, and then became assistant postmaster at San Jose. He is a journalist 
by profession; in November of 1900 he was elected Member of the Assembly from 
Santa Clara County, and reelected in 1902; elected State Senator from the 
Twenty-seventh District, November 6, 1906, to fill out the unexpired term of Eli 
Wright, expelled from the Senate; on November 3, 1908, he was reelected for the 
full term. Appointed Commissioner of Building and Loan Associations April 10, 
1911.
 
Source: California Blue Book, or State Roster, 1911
Compiled by Frank C. Jordan, Secretary of State
Friend W. Richardson, Superintendent of State Printing, Sacramento, CA, 1913