Richard Walker Bolling

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Richard Walker Bolling (May 17, 1916–April 21, 1991), (great-great-grandson of John Williams Walker and great-great-nephew of Percy Walker), a Representative from Missouri; born in New York City; attended grade schools and Phillips Exeter Academy, Exeter, New Hampshire; at the age of fifteen, upon his father’s death, returned to his home in Huntsville, Alabama; B.A., 1937, M.A., 1939, University of the South, Sewanee, Tennessee; graduate studies, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, 1939-1940; taught at Sewanee Military Academy in 1938 and 1939; served as assistant to the head of the Department of Education, Florence State Teachers College, in Alabama, in 1940; educational administrator by profession; entered the United States Army as a private in April 1941, and served until discharged as a lieutenant colonel in July 1946, with four years’ overseas service in Australia, New Guinea, Philippines, and in Japan as assistant to chief of staff to General MacArthur; awarded the Legion of Merit and Bronze Star; veterans’ adviser at the University of Kansas City in 1946 and 1947; elected as a Democrat to the Eighty-first and to the sixteen succeeding Congresses (January 03, 1949-January 03, 1983); chairman, Select Committee on Committees of the House (Ninety-third Congress), Joint Economic Committee (Ninety-fifth Congress); Committee on Rules (Ninety-sixth and Ninety-seventh Congresses); was not a candidate for reelection in 1982 to the Ninety-eighth Congress; was a resident of Washington, D.C., until his death there on April 21, 1991.