Gorham Parks

Gorham Parks ( born May 27, 1794 in Westfield, Hampden County, Massachusetts, † November 23, 1877 in Bay Ridge, New York ) was an American politician. Between 1833 and 1837 he represented the state of Maine in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Gorham Parks attended the common schools and then studied until 1813 at Harvard University. After a subsequent study of law and its made ​​in 1819 admitted to the bar, he began practicing in his new profession. In 1823 he moved to Bangor in Maine, where he also worked as a lawyer.

Politically, parks a follower of President Andrew Jackson and member of the Democratic Party, founded by this. In 1832 he was as their candidate in the then newly- eighth electoral district of Maine in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC selected. There he entered on March 4, 1833, his new mandate. After a re-election in 1834 he was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1837 two legislative sessions. These were dominated by discussions on the policies of President Jackson. This is discussed included the destruction of the Bundesbank and the enforcement of the Indian Removal Act against the will of the Supreme Court. At that time it also came across an import law to Nullifikationskrise with the State of South Carolina.

After his time in the House of Representatives from 1838 to 1841 the park was U.S. Marshal for the District of Maine. In the years 1843-1845 he served as United States Attorney for Maine. Subsequently, he was from 1845 to 1849 American consul in Brazil, based in Rio de Janeiro. After that, Gorham Parks withdrew from political life. He died in November 1877 in Bay Ridge.