William Henry Parker 


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PARKER, William Henry, a Representative from South Dakota; born in Keene, 
Cheshire County, N. H., May 5, 1847; during the Civil War served in the 
Union Army from June 24, 1861, to October 16, 1866; resigned from the Army 
while stationed at Fort Kearney, Nebr.; was graduated from the law department 
of Columbian College (now George Washington University), Washington, D. C., 
in 1868 and was admitted to the bar of the supreme court of the District of 
Columbia the same year; appointed collector of internal revenue of Colorado 
Territory by President Grant June 24, 1874; resigned in July 1876 upon his 
appointment as assistant United States attorney of Colorado Territory; 
subsequently appointed United States attorney of Colorado; moved to Deadwood, 
Territory of (now South Dakota), in July 1877 and practiced law; member of the 
constitutional convention of the proposed State of South Dakota June 30, 1885; 
elected a member of the State house of representatives in 1889; prosecuting 
attorney of Lawrence County 1903-1907; elected to the Sixtieth Congress and 
served from March 4, 1907, until his death in Deadwood, Lawrence County, S. 
Dak., on June 26, 1908; interment in Arlington National Cemetery, Fort 
Myer, Va.