William Walker
1824–60
Journalist and military leader. Medical degree, University of Pennsylvania, 1843. Worked as a lawyer and journalist in New Orleans. Newspaper editor in San Francisco, 1850. Led a series of armed expeditions to Mexico and Nicaragua with the aim of establishing US colonies. Executed in Honduras.
Source
DAB.
Bibliography
DAB: Dictionary of American biography. Under the auspices of the American Council of Learned Societies. 20 vols., index, and 10 supplements. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons; Simon & Schuster Macmillan. London: Oxford University Press; Humphrey Milford. 1928–95.
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