Statewide County WI Archives Biographies.....PARKINSON, JOHN BARBER
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Author: Beck, J. D.

BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES.

UNIVERSITY DEPARTMENT 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 Edwardsvllle, 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, 1868-94; regent of
the University, 1865-67; was appointed to a full
professorship the first from the alumniin 1867; held the
chair of Mathematics, 1867-78; 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 Policy and
Political Economy, 1876-93; was appointed professor of
Constitutional and International Law in 1898; was made
Emeritus professor of Constitutional and International Law
in 1906, and has been vice-president of the University
educe 1885. He has thus been connected with the University
in some capacity, for forty-five 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:
Beck, J. D. . The Blue Book of the State of Wisconsin.
Madison, Wis.: Democrat Printing Co., State Printer, 1909.

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