Tilman Bacon Parks

Tilman Bacon Parks (born May 14, 1872 in Lewisville , Lafayette County , Arkansas , † February 12, 1950 in Washington, DC ) was an American politician . Between 1921 and 1937 he represented the seventh constituency of the state of Arkansas in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Tilman Parks attended the public schools of his home country and later the University of Texas at Austin and the University of Virginia at Charlottesville . After studying law and being admitted to the bar in 1900, he began working in his new profession in Lewisville.

Parks was a member of the Democratic Party . He was elected to the Arkansas House of Representatives in 1901, 1903, and 1909 . In 1910 he was temporarily chairman of the Democratic Party Congress in Arkansas. Between 1914 and 1918 he was a prosecutor in the eighth judicial district of Arkansas. After moving to Hope , he worked there as a lawyer.

In 1920 Parks was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC , where he succeeded William S. Goodwin on March 4, 1921 . After he was confirmed in the following seven congressional elections in this office, he was able to exercise his mandate in Congress until January 3, 1937. Parks was no longer nominated by his party for the 1936 elections. After leaving Congress, he returned to work as a lawyer. He died in the federal capital Washington in February 1950 and was buried in the congressional cemetery.

Web links

• Tilman Bacon Parks in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Tilman Bacon parks in the database of Find a Grave (English)