Herbert Parsons

Herbert Parsons ( born October 28, 1869 in New York City; † September 16, 1925 in Pittsfield, Massachusetts) was an American lawyer and politician. Between 1905 and 1911 he represented the State of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Herbert Parsons, son of Mary McIlvaine Dumesnil (1834-1896) and John Edward Parsons (1829-1915), was born about four years after the end of the Civil War in New York City and grew up there. During this time he attended private schools in Concord St Paul's School (New Hampshire), Yale University, Humboldt -Universität zu Berlin, the Harvard Law School and graduated in 1890 at Yale University. His admission to the bar he received in 1894 and then began to practice in New York City. Between 1900 and 1904 he sat on the Board of Aldermen of New York City. Politically, he was a member of the Republican Party. On September 1, 1900, he married Elsie Worthington Clews ( 1875-1941 ), daughter of Lucy Madison Worthington and Henry Clews. The couple had only one daughter, Elsie Parsons ( 1901-1966 ). She was married to John Drummond Kennedy ( 1897-1975 ).

In the congressional elections of 1904 for the 59th Congress Parsons was in the 13th electoral district of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Francis Burton Harrison on March 4, 1905. After two successful re- election in 1910, he suffered a defeat and retired after March 3, 1911 the Congress of.

After his conference time he went to New York City back to his work as a lawyer after. He took 1904-1920 as a delegate to all Republican New York State Convention in part and in the years 1908, 1912, 1916 and 1920 to the Republican National Conventions. During the First World War he served in the General Staff of the American Expeditionary Forces. On September 16, 1925, he died in Pittsfield and was then buried in Lenox in the same cemetery.