Politics and Government
- William Walker (Quebec merchant) (c. 1790–1863), merchant and politician in Lower Canada, member of the Legislative Council of the Province of Canada
- William Walker (Quebec politician) (1797–1844), lawyer and politician in Lower Canada
- William Walker (Wyandot leader) (1800–1874), sometime chief of the Wyandot Nation in Ohio and Kansas
- William Walker (politician) (1842–1916), State Assemblyman from New York
- William Walker (trade unionist) (1871–1918), Irish trade unionist and socialist
- William Walker (diplomat) (born 1935), U.S. ambassador to El Salvador, 1988–1992; leader of the Kosovo Verification Mission, 1998–1999
- William Walker (British colonial governor), twice acting governor of British Guiana (1848-49 and 1853-54); see List of Governors of British Guiana
- William A. Walker (1805–1861), United States Representative from New York
- William Campbell Walker (1837–1904), New Zealand politician
- William H. Walker (1847–1913), Canadian politician
- William O. Walker (1896–1981), African-American publisher, politician and editor
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