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About Jimmy Walker
James John Walker, known colloquially as Jimmy Walker and Beau James, was an American attorney, lyricist, and Democratic Party politician who served as the 98th mayor of New York City from 1926 until his resignation in 1932. A flamboyant politician, he was a liberal Democrat and part of the powerful Tammany Hall machine. He was forced to resign during a corruption scandal in which he accepted large sums of money in exchange for municipal contracts.
Everything about Jimmy Walker →- Occupation
- politician, songwriter, writer, lawyer
- Position held
- member of the State Senate of New York, Mayor of New York City, member of the New York State Assembly, senator
- Citizenship
- United States
- Born
- June 19, 1881
- Died
- November 18, 1946