ABOUT
About Larry
Republican Larry Walker, III was elected to the State Senate for Georgia’s 20th District in 2015, representing the citizens of Bleckley, Dodge, Dooly, Houston, Laurens, Pulaski, Treutlen and Wilcox counties.
Sen. Walker has championed legislation to grow Georgia’s economy by reducing unnecessary regulatory burden on businesses, cutting taxes, funding education and workforce development, incentivizing capital investment in areas outside of metro Atlanta, and protecting Georgia’s water rights. Additionally, he has worked to stabilize and improve access to rural health care.
His signature legislation includes eliminating the corporate net worth tax on small business, establishing tax credits for job creating investment in rural Georgia, abolishing redundant information practices notice requirements for insurance companies and agents, enhancing Georgia’s successful digital entertainment industry incentives, strengthening our agriculture water use metering program and supporting our military installations through the creation of military economic opportunity zones.
Sen. Walker is Majority Caucus Secretary, Chairman of the Insurance & Labor Committee, and Secretary of the Agriculture & Consumer Affairs Committee. Senator Walker also serves as Chairman of the Appropriations Subcommittee on Agriculture, Agriculture Education and Department of Natural Resources. He is also a member of the joint Agricultural Exposition Authority Overview Committee, the Agriculture Education Advisory Commission, the Georgia World Congress Center Overview Committee, and is the Governor's appointee to the One Georgia Authority.
Senator Walker is active in the middle Georgia community serving on the board of numerous organizations, including the Methodist Home, the Museum of Aviation and Morris Bank. He is a past Chairman of the Perry Downtown Development Authority and the Middle Georgia Technical College Board and past Vice-Chairman of the Houston County Development Authority. A past president of the Perry Rotary Club, Sen. Walker is a Paul Harris Fellow and was named Perry Rotarian of the Year in both 2004 and 2008. Sen. Walker currently serves on the Legislative Overview Committee for the Agricultural Exposition Authority and the Georgia Joint Defense Commission, and was appointed in 2019 to serve on the Georgia World Congress Center (GWCC) Authority Overview Committee.
Sen. Walker was born and raised in Perry. After graduating from the University of Georgia, he worked as a staff accountant for The Coca-Cola Company in Atlanta before opening several successful small businesses, including Walker Insurance Agency in Perry. Sen. Walker is a committed family man. He has been married to his high school sweetheart, Adrienne, for 35 years. Together they have three sons: Ben, Cody and Wade. Larry and Adrienne reside in Kathleen and are active members of the Perry United Methodist Church.