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Education
Lester Aglar Walton graduated from a segregated sumner High School in St. Louis. After graduation, his father provided him with a white tutor to help him graduate from a business school. Walton held three honorary degrees: in 1927, he received Master of Arts from Lincoln University in Chester, Pennsylvania. later in 1945, Walton received LL.D. from Wilberforce University in Ohio. And in 1958, University of Liberia presented him an honorary LL.D for his hard work for that nation.

Career
Lester A. Walton began his first career as golf writer at St. Louis Star, from 1902 until 1906. He also worked as a court reporter for the St. Louis Star. By 1908, Walton moved to New York and became a manager and a theatrical editor for the New York Age.He pursued a career in journalism which helped him became a writer for The New York World from 1922 to 1931. in 1932, Walton returned to serve as an associate editor of the New York Age. His career as a journalist and his interest in world affairs encouraged him to attend the Versailles Peace Conference as a correspondent in 1920. Walton had a special interest in Liberia in 1933, and he visited the country and wrote an article for the Age and New York Herald Tribune. In July 1935, President Franklin D. Roosevelt appointed him the United State minister and served as advisor to the Liberian delegation to the United State from 1948 to 1949.