| The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-07. |
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| Parker, Isaac Charles |
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| 1838–96, American frontier judge, b. Belmont co., Ohio. Self-taught in law, Parker began practice in St. Joseph, Mo., in 1859. He was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1870 as a Republican. Parker was appointed (1875) judge of the western district of Arkansas, an unruly area that included in its jurisdiction the Indian Territory. He became known as a “hanging judge” because of the many death sentences he meted out. However, Parker’s rigorous justice helped bring law and order to the area. | 1 | | See biographies by F. Harrington (1951) and H. Croy (1952); G. Shirley, Law West of Fort Smith (1957, repr. 1968). | 2 |
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