Richard W. Parker
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Richard Wayne Parker (August 6, 1848 - November 28, 1923) was a United States Representative from New Jersey and a grandson of James Parker, also a Representative from New Jersey. Born in Morristown, Morris County, he graduated from Princeton College in 1867 and from the law school of Columbia College in 1869. He was admitted to the bar of New Jersey in 1870 and commenced practice in Newark. He was a member of the State house of assembly in 1885 and 1886 and was an unsuccessful Republican candidate for election to the Fifty-third Congress.
Parker was elected as a Republican to the Fifty-fourth and to the seven succeeding Congresses, holding office from March 4, 1895 to March 3, 1911. During the Sixty-first Congress he was chairman of the Committee on the Judiciary. He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1910 to the Sixty-second Congress and resumed the practice of law in Newark. He was then elected to the Sixty-third Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Walter I. McCoy, was reelected to the Sixty-fourth and Sixty-fifth Congresses, and served from December 1, 1914, to March 3, 1919. He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1918 to the Sixty-sixth Congress and was a delegate to the Republican National Convention in 1916. He was elected to the Sixty-seventh Congress, holding office from March 4, 1921 to March 3, 1923, and was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1922 to the Sixty-eighth Congress;. Parker died in Paris, France in 1923; interment was in St. Peter's Churchyard, Perth Amboy.
