Gorham Parks, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Gorham Parks

American politician

Date of Birth: 27-May-1794

Place of Birth: Westfield, Massachusetts, United States

Date of Death: 23-Nov-1877

Profession: lawyer, politician

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Gemini


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About Gorham Parks

  • Gorham Parks (May 27, 1794 – November 23, 1877) was a U.S.
  • Representative from Maine, and a Democratic Party candidate for Maine Governor.
  • Born in Westfield, Massachusetts, Parks attended the common schools and graduated from Harvard University in 1813, where he studied law.
  • He was admitted to the bar in 1819 and began his practice in Bangor, Maine in 1823. Parks was elected as a Jacksonian to the Twenty-third and Twenty-fourth United States Congresses (March 4, 1833–March 3, 1837).
  • He was a local leader of the Loco-foco or radical faction of the Democratic Party, which was anti-bank, anti-paper money, and anti-monopoly.
  • He was opposed locally by Bangor's "Bank Junto", or conservative Democrats, which included Samuel Veazie, William Emerson, John Hodgdon, and Thomas A.
  • Hill.In 1837 Parks was the Democratic candidate for Maine governor.
  • The election was unusual in that Parks' opponent, Edward Kent of the Whig Party, lived in the same city (Bangor) and both were Harvard graduates.
  • In one of the closest gubernatorial races in Maine history, Parks lost by less than a thousand votes (with about 70,000 cast).Parks was subsequently appointed United States Marshal for the District of Maine (1838–1841), and then United States Attorney for Maine (1843–1845).
  • He ended his political career as United States Consul at Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, (1845–1849), a post later occupied by his former opponent Edward Kent Parks died in Bay Ridge, New York, November 23, 1877, and was interred in Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn.
  • His son, also Gorham Parks, became Clerk of the New York Court of Appeals, and died in Albany in 1897.

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