John M. Parker (politician, 1805)

John M. Parker (1859)

John Mason Parker (born June 14, 1805 in Granville , New York , † December 16, 1873 in Owego , New York) was an American lawyer and politician . Between 1855 and 1859 he represented New York State in the US House of Representatives .

Career

John Mason Parker was born in Washington County about seven years before the outbreak of the British-American War . He attended Granville Academy and graduated from Middlebury College in Vermont in 1828 . Parker was studying law . After receiving his license to practice law in 1833, he began practicing in Owego.

Politically, he was a member of the opposition party at that time . In the congressional elections of 1854 for the 34th Congress he was elected in the 27th  constituency of New York to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC , where he succeeded John J. Taylor on March 4, 1855 . In the following years he joined the Republican Party . In 1856 he was elected to the 35th Congress . Since he refused to run for re-election in 1858 , he resigned from Congress after March 3, 1859 .

In 1859 he became a judge on the New York Supreme Court - a position he held until his death in 1873. During this time he sat in the 3rd Department of the New York Court of Appeals from 1867 . He died in Owego about eight years after the end of the civil war and was then buried in Evergreen Cemetery .

Web links

• John M. Parker in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)
• John M. Parker in the database of Find a Grave (English)