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==Background==

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Walker was one of six children born to [[Morgan W. Walker, Sr.]], a native of  Dodson in Winn Parish. Walker's mother, the former Genevieve James (1900–1960), was the youngest of fourteen children born to Mr. and Mrs. William Calvit James, originally from Boyce in northern Rapides Parish. The senior Walker, owned Walker Cloverland Dairy, which subsequently became Walker-Roemer Dairy. Beginning with a taxicab service, the senior Walker also established Trans-Continental Bus Lines, the forerunner of Continental Trailways. For a time, Walker, Sr., was also the president of the Rapides Parish School Board and, from 1970 to 1978, was chairman of the board of former Guaranty Bank and Trust Company.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://longrootshighbranches.blogspot.com/2006/08/genevieve-james-walker_115539890861503976.html|title=Deep Roots and High Branches: Genevieve James Walker|publisher=longrootshighbranches.blogspot.com|accessdate=January 26, 2015}}</ref>​

Walker was one of six children born to [[Morgan W. Walker, Sr.]], a native of  Dodson in Winn Parish. Walker's mother, the former Genevieve James (1900–1960), was the youngest of fourteen children born to Mr. and Mrs. William Calvit James, originally from Boyce in northern Rapides Parish. The senior Walker, owned Walker Cloverland Dairy, which subsequently became Walker-Roemer Dairy. Beginning with a taxicab service, the senior Walker also established Trans-Continental Bus Lines, the forerunner of Continental Trailways. For a time, Walker, Sr., was also the president of the Rapides Parish School Board and, from 1970 to 1978, was chairman of the board of the former Guaranty Bank and Trust Company.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://longrootshighbranches.blogspot.com/2006/08/genevieve-james-walker_115539890861503976.html|title=Deep Roots and High Branches: Genevieve James Walker|publisher=longrootshighbranches.blogspot.com|accessdate=January 26, 2015}}</ref>

 

Walker was reared on the family plantation off Horseshoe Drive in Alexandria. In his teens, he delivered [[milk]] for the family dairy. Like his mother, he became accomplished at horsemanship. He was an [[Eagle Scout]]. He graduated in 1947 after four years of study at the defunct Sewanee Military Academy in Chattanooga, [[Tennessee]]. He soon left [[Louisiana State University]] in [[Baton Rouge]] to work in farming and ranching. In the early 1950s, during the [[Korean War]], Walker joined the Seabees Reserve and was honorably discharged in 1954 from the [[United States Navy]].<ref name=obit>{{cite web|url=http://www.thetowntalk.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080817/OBITUARIES/80816018/1023|title=Morgan Walker, Jr.|publisher=''The Alexandria Town Talk''|date=August 16, 2008|accessdate=January 26, 2015}}</ref>​

Walker was reared on the family plantation off Horseshoe Drive in Alexandria. In his teens, he delivered [[milk]] for the family dairy. Like his mother, he became accomplished at horsemanship. He was an [[Eagle Scout]]. He graduated in 1947 after four years of study at the defunct Sewanee Military Academy in Chattanooga, [[Tennessee]]. He soon left [[Louisiana State University]] in [[Baton Rouge]] to work in farming and ranching. In the early 1950s, during the [[Korean War]], Walker joined the Seabees Reserve and was honorably discharged in 1954 from the [[United States Navy]].<ref name=obit>{{cite web|url=http://www.thetowntalk.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080817/OBITUARIES/80816018/1023|title=Morgan Walker, Jr.|publisher=''The Alexandria Town Talk''|date=August 16, 2008|accessdate=January 26, 2015}}</ref>​