135 linear feet.
16 record albums.
1 audio tape.
6.5 linear inches of photographs.
1 reel of microfilm.
31 linear feet of printed material.
Inventory with index.
Walker, a graduate of Gonzaga University, (Spokane, Washington) in 1906 and Notre Dame Law School in 1909, practiced law in Montana and acted as the local Democratic chairman in the 1920 presidential election campaign. He moved to New York City in 1925 as vice-president and general counsel of a movie theatre chain; at the same time he practiced independent corporation law. He supported Franklin D. Roosevelt's campaigns for governor in 1928 and the presidency in 1932. During the 1932 campaign he served as Treasurer of the Democratic National Committee. President Roosevelt appointed him executive secretary of his President's Executive Council in 1933, and he subsequently acted as executive director of the National Emergency Council. In 1940 he was appointed to succeed Jim Farley as Postmaster General of the United States, in which position he served until 1945. In 1946 he was appointed by President Truman as alternate delegate to the first United Nations General Assembly session in London. He returned to his business interests in New York as director of W. R. Grace and Co. and the Grace National Bank of New York.
Correspondence, reports and other papers relating to personal and business affairs and to politics, primarily in the 1930s and 1940s; correspondence and reports concerning the Notre Dame Board of Lay Trustees and the Notre Dame Foundation; and correspondence with charitable and Catholic organizations such as the Catholic Youth Organization, Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of New York, and the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis. Correspondents include Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harry S. Truman, James Aloysius Farley, John Francis Cardinal O'Hara, Eddie Dowling, J. Arthur Haley, John B. Kanaley, and Robert Hannegan. Also minutes, proceedings, reports and press releases of the President's Executive Council, the National Emergency Council, and the Post Office; financial reports of the Democratic National Committee 1924-1938, 1943-1944; reports on the motion picture industry; a tape recording of an oral history interview with Walker's son Thomas and daughter Laura Jenkins; microfilm of Walker scrapbooks; record albums, photographs, and books from Walker's library.
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