James S. Parker
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James Southworth Parker (June 3, 1867 - December 19, 1933) was a United States Representative from New York. Born in Great Barrington, Berkshire County, Massachusetts, he attended the public schools and was graduated from Cornell University in 1887. He taught at St. Paul's School in Concord, New Hampshire in 1887 and moved to Salem, Washington County, New York in 1888 and taught at St. Paul's School at Salem. He engaged in agricultural pursuits in 1888 and was also interested in breeding harness racing horses. He was a member of the New York State Assembly in 1904, 1905, and from 1908 to 1912, and was elected as a Republican to the Sixty-third and to the ten succeeding Congresses, holding office from March 4, 1913 until his death in Washington, D.C. in 1933. While in the House, he was chairman of the Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce during the Sixty-ninth through Seventy-first Congresses. Interment was in Evergreen Cemetery, Salem.
