James S. Parker

James Southworth Parker ( born June 3, 1867 in Great Barrington, Berkshire County, Massachusetts, † December 19, 1933 in Washington DC ) was an American politician. Between 1913 and 1933 he represented the State of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

James Parker attended the public schools of his home. In 1887, he graduated from Cornell University in Ithaca. He then taught at various schools as a teacher. Since 1888 he lived in Salem ( New York), where he was also initially worked as a teacher. He then worked in agriculture. He also bred racehorses. At the same time he proposed as a member of the Republican Party a political career a In the years 1904 and 1905 and 1908-1912 he was a member of the New York State Assembly at.

In the congressional elections of 1912 Parker was the 29th electoral district of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Michael E. Driscoll on March 4, 1913. After ten elections he could remain until his death in Congress. From 1925 to 1931 he was chairman of the Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. In Parker's time as a congressman fell among other things, the First World War and the beginning of the world economic crisis. Between 1913 and 1920, the 16th, the 17th, the 18th and the 19th Amendment to the Constitution were ratified.

James Parker died on 19 December 1933, Washington DC and was buried in his hometown of Salem.