Michael Parker (politician)

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Michael Parker

Michael Parker (born October 31, 1949 in Laurel , Jones County , Mississippi ) is an American politician . Between 1989 and 1999 he represented the fourth constituency of the state of Mississippi in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Michael Parker attended Franklin County High School in Meadville until 1967 and then William Carey College in Hattiesburg until 1970 . He then worked as a businessman in various industries. Among other things, he was a funeral director, head of an insurance company and head of a company in the wood processing industry.

Parker was originally a member of the Democratic Party , as its candidate in 1988 in the fourth district of Mississippi in the US House of Representatives in Washington . There he took over from Wayne Dowdy on January 3, 1989 . He was confirmed in this office in 1992. But even during this campaign, Parker, as a very conservative Democrat, distanced himself from his party. So he refused to support the presidential candidate Bill Clinton . Nevertheless, he was re-elected as a Democrat in the US Congress in 1994. In 1995 he made the move to the Republican Party . Then in 1996 he was elected a Republican to the House of Representatives.

In 1998 Parker renounced another candidacy for Congress. Instead, he ran unsuccessfully for the governor of Mississippi. After President George W. Bush took office , Parker was entrusted with the civilian direction of the Army Corps of Engineers in the Department of Army . This army facility monitors, among other things, the rivers and their levees in the United States. Parker was dismissed from this post in 2002 because he fell out with the Bush administration on detailed issues. Then Parker worked in Washington as a lobbyist, who dealt mainly with infrastructure measures.

Web links

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