William Parmenter

William Parmenter ( born March 30, 1789 in Boston, Massachusetts, † February 25, 1866 in East Cambridge, Massachusetts ) was an American politician. Between 1837 and 1845 he represented the state of Massachusetts in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

William Parmenter attended the common schools and the Boston Latin School. In the 1820s he joined the movement to the later U.S. President Andrew Jackson and became a member of the Democratic Party, founded in 1828 by this. In 1829 he was a member of the House of Representatives of Massachusetts; In 1836 he was a member of the State Senate. In the same year he was councilor in Cambridge. From 1824 to 1836 Parmenter served as manager of the New England Crown Glass Co. He was also president of the Middlesex bank.

In the congressional elections of 1836 Parmenter in the fourth electoral district of Massachusetts was in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Samuel Hoar on March 4, 1837. After three re- elections, he was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1845 four legislative sessions. From 1843 to 1845 he was chairman of the Committee on Naval Affairs. The time from 1841 was marked by the tensions between President John Tyler and the Whig Party. It was also at that time already been discussed about a possible annexation of the independent Republic of Texas since 1836 by Mexico.

After the end of his time in the U.S. House of Representatives worked as a Naval Officer with the Port Authority of Boston William Parmenter 1845-1849. He died on 25 February 1866 in East Cambridge.