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Nelson Walker
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Nelson Walker (c. 1827 - July 7, 1875) was a community leader in Tennessee and Justice of the Peace. He was born enslaved, worked as a barber, purchased freedom for himself, his wife, and their four children, and became a wealthy lawyer, judge and bank president in Nashville, Tennessee.
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