Statewide County WI Archives Biographies.....PARKINSON, JOHN BARBER ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/wi/wifiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Tina Vickery tsvickery@gmail.com October 27, 2007, 9:58 pm Author: Halford Erickson BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. MEMBERS OF THE FIFTY-EIGHTH CONGRESS. UNIVERSITY DEPARTMENT HEADS. VICE-PRESIDENT OF THE UNIVERSITY. JOHN BARBER PARKINSON, Agr. B., 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 a full professorship—the first from the alumni—in 1867; held the chair of Mathematics, 1867-72; of Civil Polity and Constitutional Law, 1872-74; was 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 Sciences, 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 not yet published. Additional Comments: Erickson, Halford. The Blue Book of the State of Wisconsin. Madison: Democrat Printing Co., State Printer, 1905. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/wi/history/bluebook/1905/bios/parkinso457nbs.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/wifiles/ File size: 2.0 Kb