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Albion Keith Parris

Judge, U.S. District Court for the District of Maine · 1818

Albion Keith Parris , Judge, U.S. District Court for the District of Maine. Albion Keith Parris (January 19, 1788 – February 11, 1857) was the fifth governor of Maine, a United States representative from the District of Maine, Massachusetts, a United States senator from Maine, a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Maine, an associate justice of the Maine Supreme Judicial Court and the 2nd Comptroller of the Currency for the United States…

Education

  • Dartmouth College1806
  • Read law1809

Career

Private practice, Paris, Maine, 1810-1811; Prosecutor, Oxford County, Maine, 1811-1813; State representative from Paris, Maine, 1813-1814; State senator from Oxford and Somerset Counties, Maine, 1814-1815; U.S. representative from Massachusetts, 1815-1818; Judge, Cumberland County [Maine] Probate Court, 1820-1821; Governor, Maine, 1822-1827; U.S. senator from Maine, 1827-1828; Associate justice, Maine Supreme Judicial Court, 1828-1836; Second comptroller, U.S. Department of the Treasury, 1836-1850; Private practice, Portland, Maine, 1849-1852; Mayor, Portland, Maine, 1852; Candidate for governor, Maine, 1854

Biography

Albion Keith Parris (January 19, 1788 – February 11, 1857) was the fifth governor of Maine, a United States representative from the District of Maine, Massachusetts, a United States senator from Maine, a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Maine, an associate justice of the Maine Supreme Judicial Court and the 2nd Comptroller of the Currency for the United States…

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