Legacy

Records show the Walker branch of President George W. Bush’s family, which settled in central Illinois, included slave owners.

By Roger Hughes

Untitled Document Add President George Walker Bush to the list of top-tier U.S. politicians whose ancestors include slaveholders. U.S. Census records for 1790 to 1830 testify t

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History | Wednesday, April 4,2007

Degrees of separation

Walkers were kin to man who helped put Lincoln in the White House.

By Roger Hughes

Untitled Document The Bush side of the presidents’ family receives nearly all of the attention from historians; the Walker side, by comparison, is almost anonymous to histo