[Congressional Record Volume 146, Number 126 (Wednesday, October 11, 2000)]
[Senate]
[Page S10242]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                      DEATH OF E.S. JOHNNY WALKER

  Mr. BINGAMAN. Mr. President, I rise to advise Members of the Senate 
that New Mexico lost a very distinguished citizen and a good friend 
with the death of E.S. Johnny Walker on Sunday at the age of 89. His 
life of public service began with 4 years in the Army in World War II. 
Subsequently, it included two terms in our State legislature in the 
House of Representatives in Santa Fe, followed by service as 
commissioner of our public lands in New Mexico and commissioner of the 
bureau of revenue. He was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives 
in 1964 and served two terms here in Washington representing New Mexico 
in the House of Representatives.
  Johnny is survived by his wife Polly, to whom he was married for 63 
years; also by their two children, Mike Walker and Janet Walker Steele; 
also by grandchildren and great-grandchildren, colleagues, and, of 
course, many friends. I am proud to say that his friends included my 
family and, of course, me. We have known the Walkers for decades.
  I fondly recall his friendship with my parents and with my uncle, 
John Bingaman, during the time when I was growing up in Silver City. He 
was a ``man of the people'' in the very best sense of that phrase. He 
worked very hard for the interest of the people of New Mexico, and he 
will be remembered warmly in our State for his humanity and for his 
great service.

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