James Parker (New Jersey)

James Parker (March 3, 1776 - April 1, 1868) was a United States Representative from New Jersey. Born in Bethlehem, New Jersey, he moved to Perth Amboy after the Revolution. He graduated from Columbia College (in New York City) in 1793; Parker engaged in the management and settlement of large landed properties left by his father, also as a land surveyor and as a lawyer, although never admitted to the bar. He was a member of the New Jersey General Assembly from 1806 to 1810 and in 1812, 1813, 1815, 1816, 1818, and 1827, and was mayor of Perth Amboy in 1815 and again in 1850. He was collector of customs at Perth Amboy from 1829 to 1833, and was elected as a Jacksonian to the Twenty-third and Twenty-fourth Congresses, holding office from March 4, 1833 to March 3, 1837. He resumed his former activities, and was registrar of the board of proprietors of East Jersey. He was a member of the different boundary commissions to obtain a settlement of the boundary question between the States of New York and New Jersey, and was a delegate to the New Jersey constitutional convention in 1844. Parker died in Perth Amboy in 1868; interment was in St. Peter's Churchyard.

Parker's grandson, Richard Wayne Parker, was also a United States Representative.

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