Parker Corning

Parker Corning

Parker Corning (January 22, 1874 - May 24, 1943) was a United States Representative from New York. Born in Albany, he attended the public schools, The Albany Academy, and St. Paul's School in Concord, New Hampshire. He graduated from Yale University in 1895, engaged in the manufacture of steel and woolens, and was also interested in banking.

Corning was elected as a Democrat to the Sixty-eighth and to the six succeeding Congresses, holding office from March 4, 1923 to January 3, 1937. He was not a candidate for renomination in 1936 and resumed his former pursuits. In 1943 he died in Albany; interment was in Albany Rural Cemetery.

His grandfather Erastus Corning was also a U.S. Representative from New York, his brother Edwin Corning was Lieutenant Governor of New York, and his nephew Erastus Corning 2nd was Mayor of Albany.

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