Virgil D. Parris

Virgil Delphini Parris ( born February 18, 1807 in Buckfield, Oxford County, Massachusetts, † June 13, 1874 in Paris, Maine ) was an American politician. Between 1838 and 1841 he represented the state of Maine in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Virgil Parris was born 1807 in Buckfield, which at that time was still part of Massachusetts and Maine in 1820 was slammed. He was a cousin of Albion Parris (1788-1857), the states of Massachusetts and Maine was of 1815-1829 in both chambers of Congress and in the meantime was also governor of Maine. First, he attended the public schools in Maine and then to 1827 the Union College in Schenectady (New York). After a subsequent study of law and its made ​​in 1830 admitted to the bar, he began practicing in his new profession in Buckfield.

In 1831, Parris was employed in the management of the Senate of Maine. Politically, he was a member of the Democratic Party. From 1832 to 1837 he sat as an MP in the House of Representatives from Maine. After the death of Congressman Timothy J. Carter Parris was at the election due in the fifth electoral district of Maine in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC selected. There he joined on May 29, 1838 its new mandate. After a re-election in 1838, he could remain until March 3, 1841 in Congress.

1840 Parris has not been nominated by his party. In the years 1842 and 1843 he was a member, and at times acting President of the Senate of Maine. In this capacity, he practiced for a short time as acting from the Office of the Governor. Between 1844 and 1848 he was a U.S. Marshal for the District of Maine. In 1853 he was Special Representative of the Postal Ministry of New England. In the years 1852 and 1872 Parris participated as a delegate to the Democratic National Conventions, to which Franklin Pierce and later Horace Greeley was nominated as a presidential candidate. He died on 13 June 1874 in Paris ( Maine).