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Senate Years of Service: 1827-1828 Party: Jacksonian
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PARRIS, Albion Keith, (cousin of Virgil Delphini Parris),
a Representative from Massachusetts and a Senator from Maine; born
in Hebron, Maine (at that time a part of Massachusetts), January 19, 1788;
graduated from Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., in 1806; studied law; admitted
to the bar and commenced practice in Paris, Maine, in 1809; prosecuting
attorney of Oxford County in 1811; member, Massachusetts house of
representatives 1813-1814; member, State senate 1814-1815; elected as a
Republican from the State of Massachusetts to the Fourteenth and Fifteenth
Congresses and served from March 4, 1815, to February 3, 1818, when he
resigned; judge of the District Court of the United States for the District of
Maine 1818-1820; delegate to the Maine constitutional convention in 1819; judge
of probate for Cumberland County, Maine, 1820-1821; Governor of Maine
1822-1827; elected to the United States Senate from Maine and served from March
4, 1827, to August 26, 1828, when he resigned; judge of the supreme court of
Maine 1828-1836; Second Comptroller of the United States Treasury 1836-1850;
mayor of Portland, Maine, 1852; was not a candidate for reelection;
unsuccessful Democratic candidate for Governor in 1854; died in Portland,
Maine, February 11, 1857; interment in Western Cemetery.
BibliographyDictionary of American Biography.
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