[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 28 (Tuesday, March 5, 1996)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E276]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                   TRIBUTE TO CHARLES A. WALTON, SR.

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                        HON. ANDREW JACOBS, JR.

                               of indiana

                    in the house of representatives

                         Tuesday, March 5, 1996

  Mr. JACOBS. Mr. Speaker, the following obituary appeared in the 
Indianapolis Star on February 20, 1996. It should have been delayed for 
at least 30 more years.
  Charlie Walton was one of God's noblemen--undoubtedly still is now 
that he is in the arms of the Almighty for eternity.
  Obituaries tend to be rather sterile. Just the facts. Here is another 
fact, Charlie Walton was one of the brightest and gentlest people who 
ever lived. His death leaves an enormously lonesome place in 
Indianapolis.

              [From the Indianapolis Star, Feb. 20, 1996]

        Charles Walton Sr., Attorney, Ex-Center Township Trustee

       Charles A. Walton Sr., 59, an Indianapolis attorney and 
     former Center Township trustee, died Feb. 19.
       Services will be at 1 p.m. Feb. 22 in Stuart Mortuary 
     Chapel, with calling from 11 a.m.
       Burial: Crown Hill Cemetery.
       He was elected interim trustee in 1986 by Democratic 
     precinct committeemen to fill the unexpired term of the late 
     Benjamin Osborne. Mr. Walton, a controversial figure, 
     subsequently was denied the nomination for a four-year term 
     by party officials despite support from the precinct 
     committeemen.
       He was an attorney 36 years with several firms, including 
     Walton and Pratt, which he helped start in 1992 with a 
     daughter, a son and son-in-law.
       Mr. Walton was elected to the Indiana General Assembly in 
     1964. He was also a former deputy prosecuting attorney for 
     Marion County and an Indianapolis city attorney.
       He was an unsuccessful candidate for mayor of Indianapolis 
     in 1987.
       He was a member of Metropolitan Baptist Church; National, 
     American, Indiana, Indianapolis and Marion County bar 
     associations; and a life member of the NAACP.
       He was a graduate of Morehouse College and Indiana 
     University School of Law, Indianapolis. Memorial 
     contributions may be made to the Indianapolis Morehouse 
     College Alumni Association Scholarship Fund, in care of 
     Walton and Pratt law firm.
       Survivors: wife Joan Blackshear Walton; children Charles A. 
     Jr., John C. Walton, Mia-Lon Washington, Tanya Walton Pratt; 
     sisters Adell Van Buren, Johnnie Marie Cliff; four 
     grandchildren.

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