Amasa J. Parker

Amasa J. Parker

Amasa Junius Parker (born June 2, 1807 in Sharon , Litchfield County , Connecticut , † May 13, 1890 in Albany , New York ) was an American lawyer and politician ( Democratic Party ).

Career

Amasa Parker was born in Sharon in 1807 but moved to Hudson, New York with his family in 1816 . There he was tutored by private tutors and graduated from Union College in Schenectady (New York) in 1825 . He then served as a principal in Hudson between 1823 and 1827 . He also studied law , was admitted to the bar in 1828 and then began to practice in Delhi, New York.

Parker also had a political career. He was a member of the New York State Assembly between 1833 and 1834 . He then worked as regent at the State University of New York . Parker was elected a Democrat to the 25th US Congress , where he served from March 4, 1837 to March 3, 1839. He decided against running again in 1838 and returned to his practice as a lawyer. He later worked as a deputy chancellor and between 1844 and 1847 as a magistrate. During this time he moved to Albany, New York, in 1844. Parker served as a judge on the Supreme Court of New York for the third district between 1847 and 1855 , making him ex officio also a judge on the New York Court of Appeals . He suffered a defeat on his re-election attempt. He was also one of the founders of the Albany Law School in 1851 . After his time at the Supreme Court, he ran twice, in 1856 and 1858, unsuccessfully for the office of governor of New York. He then took part as a delegate in the constituent assemblies of New York in 1867 and 1868 .

Amasa Parker died in Albany in 1890 and was buried there in the Albany Rural Cemetery .

family

He was married to Harriet Langdon Roberts, granddaughter of Woodbury Langdon , one of New Hampshire's MPs in the Continental Congress . The couple had four children together. These included General Amasa J. Parker, Jr. , who commanded the New York National Guard, and Mary Parker, who married Erastus Corning (1827-1897) and was the mother of Lieutenant Governor Edwin Corning . Former Albany Mayor Erastus Corning 2nd was one of his great-grandchildren.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Member of the board of directors of a university
2. ^ Judge at the Equity Court
3. ↑ Parker, Amasa J., Jr. ( Memento from July 30, 2012 in the web archive archive.today )

literature

• Obituary in the New York Times, May 14, 1890

Web links

• Amasa J. Parker in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Amasa J. Parker in the database of Find a Grave (English)