Gorham Parks

Gorham Parks (born May 27, 1794 in Westfield , Massachusetts , †  November 23, 1877 in Bay Ridge , New York ) was an American lawyer and politician . Between 1833 and 1837 he represented the state of Maine in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Gorham Parks attended the public schools of his home country and then studied at Harvard University until 1813 . After studying law and being admitted to the bar in 1819, he began to practice this profession. In 1823 he moved to Bangor , Maine, where he also worked as a lawyer.

Politically, Parks was a supporter of President Andrew Jackson and a member of the Democratic Party he founded . In 1832 he was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC as their candidate in the then newly created eighth constituency of Maine . There he took up his new mandate on March 4, 1833. After re-election in 1834, he was able to complete two terms in Congress until March 3, 1837 . These were shaped by discussions about President Jackson's policies. Among other things, it was about the smashing of the Bundesbank and the enforcement of the Indian Removal Act against the will of the Supreme Court. At that time, an import law led to the nullification crisis with the state of South Carolina .

After serving in the House of Representatives, Parks served as US Marshal for the Maine borough from 1838 to 1841 . From 1843 to 1845 he served as a federal attorney for Maine, succeeding John Holmes . He was then the American consul in Brazil from 1845 to 1849, based in Rio de Janeiro . Then Gorham Parks withdrew from political life. He died in Bay Ridge in November 1877.

Web links

• Gorham Parks in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)
• Gorham parks in the database of Find a Grave (English)