Albion Keith Parris (January 19, 1788 – February 11, 1857) was the fifth governor of Maine, a United States representative from the District of Maine, Massachusetts, a United States senator from Maine, a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Maine, an associate justice of the Maine Supreme Judicial Court and the 2nd Comptroller of the Currency for the United States Department of the Treasury.
Albion Keith Parris
Born 1788 in Hebron, ME
Died 1857 in Portland, ME
FJC ID: 1843
- Gender
- Male
- Race
- White
Prior employment
- MaineCandidate for governor · 1854
- Private practice, Portland, Maine1849–1852
- Portland, MaineMayor · 1852
U.S. Department of the TreasurySecond comptroller · 1836–1850- Maine Supreme Judicial CourtAssociate justice · 1828–1836
- U.S. senator from Maine1827–1828
- MaineGovernor · 1822–1827
- Cumberland County [Maine] Probate CourtJudge · 1820–1821
- U.S. representative from Massachusetts1815–1818
- MaineState senator from Oxford and Somerset Counties · 1814–1815
- MaineState representative from Paris · 1813–1814
- Oxford County, MaineProsecutor · 1811–1813
- Private practice, Paris, Maine1810–1811
Appointments
1818–1822 · Appointed by James Monroe (Jeffersonian Republican)Term ended: Resignation
Education
- Read law1809
- Dartmouth College1806