Fred W. Parks

Fred W. Parks (born September 1, 1871 in Geneseo , Livingston County , New York , †  July 25, 1941 in Denver ) was an American lawyer and politician . From 1898 to 1902 and from 1905 to 1908 he was Senator, from 1905 to 1907 he was also Lieutenant Governor of the State of Colorado under Governor Jesse Fuller McDonald .

Life

Parks first attended New York State Normal School. At the age of 16 he came to Cañon City , Colorado. Here he worked for the future governor James Peabody . From 1889 he moved to Colorado's capital, Denver , where he worked for an insurance agency. In 1891 he founded his own agency, which he sold two years later. In Denver he studied law at the University of Denver and then at Colorado State University Boulder . In 1895 he passed his exams and was admitted to the bar. He ran a law firm with Ben Lindsey until Lindsey was elected judge in 1901.

A member of the Republican Party , Parks was elected secretary to the Silver Republican Central Committee of Arapahoe County in 1897 and to the Colorado Senate in 1898 . In 1901, Governor James Orman appointed him chief of public administration for Arapahoe County. In 1904 Parks was re-elected Senator and in 1905/6 served as President pro tempore of the Senate. In 1905 he was appointed lieutenant governor's deputy to Governor Jesse Fuller McDonald . Parks held the office of district attorney for Arapahoe County for one term and was elected county commissioner there in 1907. From 1907 to 1910 he was chairman of the Denver Central Committee of Republicans.

After his political tenure, Parks continued to practice law, representing some of Colorado's major utility companies. In June 1924 he took part as a delegate to the Republican National Convention in Cleveland , on which President Calvin Coolidge was nominated for re-election.

literature

• Presidents and Speakers of the Colorado General Assembly. A Biographical Portrait from 1876 . Denver 2016, p. 18. ( PDF )