Andrew Parker | |
Birthname: | Andrew Parker |
State: | Pennsylvania |
Term Start: | March 4, 1851 |
Term End: | March 3, 1853 |
Birth Date: | 21 May 1805 |
Birth Place: | Cumberland County, Pennsylvania, U.S. |
Death Place: | Mifflintown, Pennsylvania, U.S. |
Resting Place: | Westminster Presbyterian Cemetery, Mifflintown, Pennsylvania, U.S. |
Party: | Democratic |
Alma Mater: | Dickinson College |
Profession: | Politician, lawyer |
Andrew Parker (May 21, 1805 – January 15, 1864) was a 19th-century American lawyer and politician who was a one-term Democratic member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania from 1851 to 1853.
Andrew Parker was born in Cumberland County, Pennsylvania on May 21, 1805. He attended public schools and graduated from Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, in 1824.
Parker studied law in Carlisle, was admitted to the bar in 1826 and commenced practice in Lewistown, Pennsylvania.
He was subsequently appointed deputy attorney general of Mifflin County, Pennsylvania. He later moved to Mifflintown, Pennsylvania, in 1831, where he practiced law.
Parker was elected as a Democrat to the Thirty-second Congress. He continued the practice of law in Mifflintown until his death.
Parker died in Mifflintown on January 15, 1864. He was buried in that community's Westminster Presbyterian Cemetery.