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Parris, Albion Keith

Born January 19, 1788, in Hebron, ME
Died February 11, 1857, in Portland, ME

Federal Judicial Service:
Judge, U.S. District Court for the District of Maine
Nominated by James Monroe on January 27, 1818, to a seat vacated by David Sewall. Confirmed by the Senate on January 28, 1818, and received commission on January 28, 1818. Service terminated on January 1, 1822, due to resignation.

Education:
Dartmouth College, 1806
Read law, 1809

Professional 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

Manuscript Collections

Maine Historical Society
Portland, Me.
Albion Parris account book, 1797-1811.
1 vol.; Account book kept by Albion Parris for his father Samuel Albion's general store possibly in Hebron, Maine.

Albion K. Parris accounts/documents, 1809-1821.
1 vol., 1 envelope; One volume of accounts and one envelope of miscellaneous documents including letters and accounts kept by Albion K. Parris from 1809-1821. Account book also contains notations concerning some of Parris' law students: Samuel Gooch, Reuel Washburn, Stephen Emery, and Levi Stowell.

Albion K. Parris docket book, 1831.
1 vol; docket book for the Apr. 1831 term at York, Me.

Albion K. Parris record books, 1809-1849.
12 vols. and 1 envelope. Record books of Albion Keith Parris kept from 1809-1849. Volumes 1-3 and docket books are from Parris' early years: one as Justice of the Peace and one from the Court of Common Pleas. Volumes 4-9 are docket books from Parris' term on the State Supreme Court. Volume 10: Acts and Resolutions of the Twenty-ninth Congress is interleaved with manuscripts from Parris' term as Second Comptroller. Volumes 11 and 12 are undated docket books. Also included is an envelope of loose manuscripts consisting mostly of accounts and some notes on court cases.

Portraits

Albion K. Parris, Portland, ca. 1848; by J.H. Bufford's Lith; Lithograph engraving; ca. 1848; Maine Historical Society, Portland, ref. #: 154. Reference image courtesy of the Maine Historical Society. Further reproduction prohibited without permission of the repository.

Additional images:

Albion K. Parris, in ''Parris, Albion Keith'', The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography (New York: James T. White & Company, 1896): 6:306.

Albion K. Parris, in William Willis, A History of the Law, the Courts, and the Lawyers of Maine: From Its First Colonization to the Early Part of the Present Century (Portland: Bailey & Noyes, 1863).

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