Education
Born in Great Barrington, Berkshire County, Massachusetts, he attended the public schools and was graduated from Cornell University in 1887.
United States representative politician
Born in Great Barrington, Berkshire County, Massachusetts, he attended the public schools and was graduated from Cornell University in 1887.
He taught at Saint Paul"s School in Concord, New Hampshire in 1887 and moved to Salem, Washington County, New York in 1888 and taught at Saint Paul"s School at Salem. He began farming in Salem in 1898. He was also interested in breeding harness racing horses.
Parker was elected as a Republican to the Sixty-third and to the ten succeeding Congresses, holding office from March 4, 1913, until his death on December 19, 1933.
While in the House, he was Chairman of the Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce during the Sixty-ninth through Seventy-first Congresses. He and Senator Charles McNary of Oregon introduced a bill in 1930 to give mail contract subsidies for transoceanic trip to American dirigibles.
He had no children. He died on December 19, 1933, in Washington, District of Columbia, and was buried at the Evergreen Cemetery in Salem, New New York
He was a member of the New York State Assembly (Washington Company) in 1904, 1905, 1908, 1909, 1910, 1911 and 1912.