Biographical Sketches:  JOHN BARBER PARKINSON


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The Blue Book of the State of Wisconsin Compiled and Published under
the direction of Wm. H. Froehlich, Secretary of State 1901.

page 772

UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN - FACULTY HEADS VICE-PRESIDENT OF THE
UNIVERSITY. JOHN BARBER PARKINSON, A. M., Vice-President of the
University, Professor of Constitutional and International Law, was
born at Edwardsville, Madison county, Ill., April 11, 1834; graduated
from the University of Wisconsin in 1860; was an Instructor in the
University, 1861-62; County Superintendent of La Fayette county, 1862-
64; Regent of the University, 1866-67; was appointed to ft full
professorship the first from the alumni-in 1867; held the chair of
Mathematics, 1867-72; of Civil Polity and Constitutional Law, 1872-74;
wits in journalism and president of the Wisconsin State Board of
Centennial Managers, 1874-76; Professor of Civil Polity and Political
Economy, 1876--93; was appointed Professor of Constitutional and
International Law in 1893, and has been vice-president of the
University since 1885. He has thus been connected with the University
nearly forty years. Several of his addresses, read before the State
Agricultural Society, the Academy of Science Arts and Letters, and
other societies, have been published; courses of lectures on
International Law, English and American Constitutional Law and
Political Economy have been prepared, but have not yet been published.