Samuel W. Parker

Samuel Wilson Parker ( * September 9, 1805 in Watertown, Jefferson County, New York, † February 1, 1859 in Sackets Harbor, New York ) was an American politician. Between 1851 and 1855 he represented the State of Indiana in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

After a good Grundschulausbidung Samuel Parker studied until 1828 at Miami University in Oxford ( Ohio). After a subsequent study of law and its made ​​in 1831 admitted to the bar he began in Connersville (Indiana) to work in this profession. Between 1836 and 1838 he was a prosecutor in Fayette County.

Politically, Parker member of the Whig party. In 1839 and 1843 he sat as an MP in the House of Representatives from Indiana. Between 1841-1843 he was member of the State Senate. In the congressional elections of 1850 he was in the fourth electoral district of Indiana in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of George Washington Julian on March 4, 1851. After a re-election he was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1855 two legislative sessions. These were determined by the events and discussions that preceded the Civil War. Since 1853, he acted as the successor of Thomas A. Hendricks the fifth district of his state.

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