Isaac Parker (congressman)

Isaac Parker ( born June 17, 1768 in Boston, Massachusetts, † July 25, 1830 ) was an American lawyer and politician. Between 1797 and 1799 he represented the state of Massachusetts in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Isaac Parker attended the common schools and studied until 1786 at Harvard University. After a subsequent study of law and qualifying as a lawyer, he began to work in this profession in Castine in present-day Maine. In his new home in Parker held various local offices. He later moved to Portland, where he also practiced law. Politically, he was a member of the late 1790s, founded by Alexander Hamilton Federalist Party. In the congressional elections of 1796, Parker was selected in the twelfth electoral district of Massachusetts in the U.S. House of Representatives, where he became the successor of Henry Dearborn on March 4, 1797. Until March 3, 1799, he was able to complete a term in Congress.

Between 1799 and 1803 Parker was U.S. Marshal for the District of Maine at that time the state of Massachusetts. He then moved to Boston, where he 1806 Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court judge on has been a year. Since 1814, he served as Chairman of this Court. A post he held until his death. From 1815 to 1827 he also held legal lectures at Harvard University. In 1820, Parker was President of the Assembly to recast the constitution of Massachusetts to the spin-off of the Maine district. He was eleven years curator of Bowdoin College and sat 20 years on the board of Harvard University. Isaac Parker died on 25 July 1830 in Boston.