Parents: William L Alexander Percy & Nancy Irwin Armstrong
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Walker Percy:
Attorney, businessman, state legislator. Family connections with the Debardeleben and Pratt families, who were instrumental in the founding of Bessemer, AL, put him at the forefront of development in the Birmingham region, where he was a board member of Berney National Bank (1890), and continued when it was incorporated into First National Bank.
Walker Percy represented US Steel during their takeover of Tennesse Coal (TCI) and was district attorney for the Illinois Central Railroad during difficult years of mergers and antitrust disputes. As state legislator, he introduced and helped pass the requirement for salaries for law enforcement officers, ending an abusive fee-based system that encouraged officers to arrest at will, typically among the black communites.
His activities brought him into contact with Henry Lee Badham Sr #88320268, who was president of the Ensley Land Improvement Assoc. Badham named a son Walker Percy Badham #88321824.
Suffering from depression that lead to a breakdown after being mistakenly identified with legal chicanery caused by another legislator (1914), and the work he put in to clear his name, he was nonetheless elected president of the Alabama Bar Association that same year. He took his own life not long after the birth of his grandson, novelist Walker Percy.
Although the future writer, as an infant, could not have been directly affected, Walker Sr's son LeRoy, Walker Jr's father, took his own life in a similar manner in 1929, when the novelist was about 13, and later Walker Jr's mother appears to have driven off of a bridge to end her own life. These events deeply affected the novelist in later years.
(Submitted by Clinton Slayton #46632769)
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Walker Percy:
Attorney, businessman, state legislator. Family connections with the Debardeleben and Pratt families, who were instrumental in the founding of Bessemer, AL, put him at the forefront of development in the Birmingham region, where he was a board member of Berney National Bank (1890), and continued when it was incorporated into First National Bank.
Walker Percy represented US Steel during their takeover of Tennesse Coal (TCI) and was district attorney for the Illinois Central Railroad during difficult years of mergers and antitrust disputes. As state legislator, he introduced and helped pass the requirement for salaries for law enforcement officers, ending an abusive fee-based system that encouraged officers to arrest at will, typically among the black communites.
His activities brought him into contact with Henry Lee Badham Sr #88320268, who was president of the Ensley Land Improvement Assoc. Badham named a son Walker Percy Badham #88321824.
Suffering from depression that lead to a breakdown after being mistakenly identified with legal chicanery caused by another legislator (1914), and the work he put in to clear his name, he was nonetheless elected president of the Alabama Bar Association that same year. He took his own life not long after the birth of his grandson, novelist Walker Percy.
Although the future writer, as an infant, could not have been directly affected, Walker Sr's son LeRoy, Walker Jr's father, took his own life in a similar manner in 1929, when the novelist was about 13, and later Walker Jr's mother appears to have driven off of a bridge to end her own life. These events deeply affected the novelist in later years.
(Submitted by Clinton Slayton #46632769)
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Parents: William L Alexander Percy & Nancy Irwin Armstrong
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Walker Percy:
Attorney, businessman, state legislator. Family connections with the Debardeleben and Pratt families, who were instrumental in the founding of Bessemer, AL, put him at the forefront of development in the Birmingham region, where he was a board member of Berney National Bank (1890), and continued when it was incorporated into First National Bank.
Walker Percy represented US Steel during their takeover of Tennesse Coal (TCI) and was district attorney for the Illinois Central Railroad during difficult years of mergers and antitrust disputes. As state legislator, he introduced and helped pass the requirement for salaries for law enforcement officers, ending an abusive fee-based system that encouraged officers to arrest at will, typically among the black communites.
His activities brought him into contact with Henry Lee Badham Sr #88320268, who was president of the Ensley Land Improvement Assoc. Badham named a son Walker Percy Badham #88321824.
Suffering from depression that lead to a breakdown after being mistakenly identified with legal chicanery caused by another legislator (1914), and the work he put in to clear his name, he was nonetheless elected president of the Alabama Bar Association that same year. He took his own life not long after the birth of his grandson, novelist Walker Percy.
Although the future writer, as an infant, could not have been directly affected, Walker Sr's son LeRoy, Walker Jr's father, took his own life in a similar manner in 1929, when the novelist was about 13, and later Walker Jr's mother appears to have driven off of a bridge to end her own life. These events deeply affected the novelist in later years.
(Submitted by Clinton Slayton #46632769)
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Walker Percy:
Attorney, businessman, state legislator. Family connections with the Debardeleben and Pratt families, who were instrumental in the founding of Bessemer, AL, put him at the forefront of development in the Birmingham region, where he was a board member of Berney National Bank (1890), and continued when it was incorporated into First National Bank.
Walker Percy represented US Steel during their takeover of Tennesse Coal (TCI) and was district attorney for the Illinois Central Railroad during difficult years of mergers and antitrust disputes. As state legislator, he introduced and helped pass the requirement for salaries for law enforcement officers, ending an abusive fee-based system that encouraged officers to arrest at will, typically among the black communites.
His activities brought him into contact with Henry Lee Badham Sr #88320268, who was president of the Ensley Land Improvement Assoc. Badham named a son Walker Percy Badham #88321824.
Suffering from depression that lead to a breakdown after being mistakenly identified with legal chicanery caused by another legislator (1914), and the work he put in to clear his name, he was nonetheless elected president of the Alabama Bar Association that same year. He took his own life not long after the birth of his grandson, novelist Walker Percy.
Although the future writer, as an infant, could not have been directly affected, Walker Sr's son LeRoy, Walker Jr's father, took his own life in a similar manner in 1929, when the novelist was about 13, and later Walker Jr's mother appears to have driven off of a bridge to end her own life. These events deeply affected the novelist in later years.
(Submitted by Clinton Slayton #46632769)
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