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  1. Daniel J. Walker (August 6, 1922 – April 29, 2015) was an American lawyer, businessman and politician from Illinois. A member of the Democratic party, he served as the 36th governor of Illinois, from 1973 until 1977.

  2. Apr 29, 2015 · Dan Walker, who spent four tumultuous years as governor of Illinois and nearly 18 months as an inmate in federal prison for crimes related to his later business dealings, died April 29 at his...

  3. Apr 30, 2015 · Dan Walker, a former governor of Illinois who spent four tumultuous years in office and nearly 18 months in federal prison after leaving office, died on Wednesday at his home in Chula Vista,...

  4. Apr 30, 2015 · SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — Dan Walker, a combative populist who became Illinois governor after condemning Chicago’s reaction to Democratic National Convention demonstrations as “a police riot” and later went to prison for bank fraud, died Wednesday. He was 92.

  5. Apr 30, 2015 · Dan Walker ran the state for one term in the 1970s. A Democrat, he focused much of his brief political career on fighting members of his own party. At a time when most Democratic politicians in Illinois were cogs in a massive political machine, Dan Walker was a nobody.

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  6. Apr 29, 2015 · Daniel J. Walker’s career took him from a Chicago corporate boardroom to an attention-grabbing political trek across Illinois that led to the governor’s mansion, before closing with a federal...

  7. Apr 30, 2015 · CHICAGO — Former governor Dan Walker, who spent four tumultuous years in the governor’s office and nearly 18 painful months as an inmate in federal prison, died Wednesday. He was 92.