John J. Parker
John Johnston Parker ( born November 20, 1885 in Monroe, North Carolina, † March 17, 1958 in Washington DC) was an American judge. After the Second World War Parker was a member of the International Military Tribunal. During the Nuremberg Trials, he was deputy to Francis Biddle.
Life
Parker was born the son of John Daniel and Frances Johnston Parker at Monroe. In 1908 he completed his studies in law at the University of North Carolina. During his studies, he was chairman of both his class and the student council and of Phi Beta Kappa. He won a number of awards and medals in track and field at this time.
After completing his studies he settled in Greensboro in 1908 initially as a lawyer down. From 1910 to 1922 he worked in his hometown of Monroe. Parker married in 1910 Maria Burgwin Maffitt from Wilmington. In 1922 he moved with his family to Charlotte and founded the law firm of Parker, Stewart, McRae and Bobbitt. As a member of the Republican party he joined in 1920 against Cameron Morrison in the election for governor of North Carolina, but was defeated. Four years earlier, he had already been defeated as a Republican candidate for the office of attorney general of his state. In 1924 he moved to North Carolina to a Republican National Committee and attended the Republican National Convention which nominated Calvin Coolidge again as a presidential candidate.
After being an assistant to the United States Attorney General worked in 1923, President Coolidge appointed him judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit. He held until his death in 1958 this position.
1930 Parker was nominated by President Hoover for the office of presiding judge of the Supreme Court of the United States. His election failed in the vote in the Senate on a voice. In particular, the labor movements turned against appointment Parkers. The rejection by the Senate, Parker was the first rejection of a candidate since 1894.
From 1945 to 1946 he was deputy judges of the Nuremberg Trials. 1954 Parker was a member of the International Law Commission of the United Nations.