- Amasa J. Parker
Amasa Junius Parker (
June 2 ,1807 Sharon, Connecticut -May 13 ,1890 Albany, New York ) was a U.S. Representative fromNew York .He moved with his parents to
Hudson, New York , in 1816. He was taught by private tutors and graduated fromUnion College ,Schenectady, New York , in 1825. He was the principal of Hudson (New York) Academy from 1823 to 1827. Later he studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1828, and commenced practice inDelhi, New York . He was a member of theNew York State Assembly in 1833 and 1834. He was a regent of theNew York University from 1835 to 1844.Parker was elected as a Democrat to the Twenty-fifth Congress (
March 4 ,1837 -March 3 ,1839 ). Afterwards he resumed the practice of law. In 1844, he moved toAlbany, New York and served as vice chancellor and circuit judge from 1844 to 1847. In 1847 he was elected a justice of theNew York Supreme Court for the third district, and in 1853 became one of the supreme court justices sitting on theNew York Court of Appeals , holding both offices until 1855. He was one of the founders of the Albany (New York) Law School in 1851. He was twice defeated as a Democratic candidate forGovernor of New York , in 1856 by RepublicanJohn Alsop King , and in 1858 by RepublicanEdwin D. Morgan . He served as delegate to theNew York State Constitutional Convention of 1867 and 1868.His wife was Harriet Langdon Roberts, granddaughter of
Woodbury Langdon , one of New Hampshire's representatives to theContinental Congress . They had four children, among them Mary Parker who married Erastus Corning (1827-1897) and was the mother ofEdwin Corning .He was buried at the
Albany Rural Cemetery .ource
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