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Walter Walker was editor and publisher of the Grand Junction DAILY
SENTINEL from 1917 to 1956. He was an ardent supporter of every advance
in Grand Junction and western Colorado. A force in politics, he was
appointed by the governor to the United States Senate in 1932 to fill out
the term of the late Senator Waterman. On the national level, Walker was a
member of the committee which wrote the 1932 Democratic platform called the
New Deal by Franklin Roosevelt. Walker was a delegate to eight consecutive
national conventions, a state record.
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