WALLER, John Lightfoot, clergyman, born in Woodford county, Kentucky, 23 November, 1809; died in Louisville, Kentucky, 10 October, 1854. He was educated under private tutors, and became an accomplished scholar. After teaching for several years, he took in 1835 editorial charge of the "Baptist Banner," and subsequently he edited that paper when it was combined with the "Western Pioneer" in Louisville, Kentucky In 1840 he was ordained to the Christian ministry, and he was for a time pastor of a church in Woodford county. In 1845 he established the "Western Baptist Review," afterward called the "Christian Repository," of which he remained editor until his death. He was a member of the convention that in 1849 formed the present constitution of Kentucky, and in that body displayed debating talent of a high order. In 1842 he engaged in a celebrated debate with the Reverend Nathan L. Rice on the subject of baptism. He resumed in 1850 editorial charge of the "Baptist Banner and Western Pioneer." The degree of LL. D. was conferred on him by Madison university in 1852.