Josiah Parker

Josiah Parker

Josiah Parker (born May 11, 1751 in Isle of Wight County , Colony of Virginia , †  March 11, 1810 ibid) was an American politician . Between 1789 and 1793 he represented the state of Virginia in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Josiah Parker grew up during the British colonial era and attended public schools in his homeland. In the 1770s he joined the American Revolution. In 1775 he was a member of the Virginia Security Committee. During the War of Independence he served in various units of the Continental Army until 1778 , where he made it to the rank of colonel. Between 1778 and 1783 he sat several times in the Virginia House of Representatives . In 1786 he became a naval officer in Portsmouth Harbor . Parker was an opponent of the United States Constitution, ratified in 1788 . For this reason he did not become a member of the assembly that was supposed to ratify this constitution.

In the congressional elections of 1789 Parker was elected in the eighth constituency of Virginia to the US House of Representatives, which was then still in New York , where he took up his new mandate on March 4, 1789. After five re-elections, he was able to complete six legislative terms in Congress by March 3, 1801 . Since 1793 he represented the eleventh district of his state there. Parker became a member of the Federalist Party founded by Alexander Hamilton in the late 1790s . During his time as a congressman in 1800 the new federal capital Washington, DC was moved.

After his time in the US House of Representatives, Josiah Parker worked in agriculture. He died on March 11, 1810 on the Macclesfield estate in Isle of Wight County.

Web links

• Josiah Parker in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Josiah Parker in the database of Find a Grave (English)
• Literature by and about Josiah Parker in the WorldCat bibliographic database