PARKER, RICHARD, a Representative from Virginia;
born in Richmond, Va., on December 22, 1810;
completed preparatory studies;
studied law;
was admitted to the bar and commenced practice in Berryville, Clarke County, Va.;
held several local offices;
elected as a Democrat to the Thirty-first Congress (March 4, 1849-March 3, 1851);
elected judge of the thirteenth judicial circuit of Virginia on January 15, 1851, and served until 1869;
pronounced the sentence of death on John Brown, who was captured at Harpers Ferry, Jefferson County, Va. (now West Virginia), after his unsuccessful attempt to raise an insurrection in 1859;
resumed the practice of his profession in Winchester, Frederick County, Va., and died there November 10, 1893;
interment in Mount Hebron Cemetery.
