John Fabyan Parrott

John Fabyan Parrott ( born August 8, 1767 in Portsmouth, New Hampshire; † July 9, 1836 in Greenland, New Hampshire ) was an American politician ( Democratic- Republican), who represented the state of New Hampshire in both chambers of Congress.

John Fabyan Parrott was the son of John Parrott, a merchant and ship captain. He entered his professional career in his father's footsteps and conducted trade in Europe and in the Caribbean. By 1807, issued by U.S. President Thomas Jefferson trade embargo he could not do this job.

As a result, Parrott went in a political career. He was a member from 1809 to 1814 at the House of Representatives of New Hampshire and has held numerous offices at the local level. In 1812 he wrote his first application for a seat in the House of Representatives of the United States, but without success. Two years later he was but then elected to Congress; he remained there as a deputy of 4 March 1817 to 3 March 1819. Immediately thereafter he moved within the Congress in the U.S. Senate, where he spent a six -year term until March 3, 1825. After the splitting of the Democratic Republicans, he joined the faction led by John Quincy Adams and Henry Clay, later to become the National Republican Party emerged.

After the end of his time in Congress Parrott in 1826, first postmaster in Portsmouth. He also sat from 1830 to 1831 in the Senate of New Hampshire. He died in 1836 in Greenland, and was buried in the cemetery of the property of his family. His son Robert was a successful inventor and developed the Parrott artillery gun.