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BROOKE, Walker, senator, born in Virginia, 13 December, 1813; died in Vicksburg, Mississippi, 19 February, 1869. He was graduated at the University of Virginia in 1835, studied law, immigrated to Kentucky, where he taught school two years, and then began to practice law in Lexing.ton, Mississippi He was elected a senator in congress m place of Henry S. Foote, who had resigned in order to accept the governorship, and served from 11 March, 1852, till 3 March, 1853. He was a member of the Mississippi seceding convention of 1861, elected a member of the provisional Confederate congress, in which he sat from 18 February, 1861, till 18 February, 1862, and was a candidate for the Confederate senate, but defeated by James Phelan.
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