Samuel C. Parks
Samuel C. Parks | |
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| Associate Justice of the Wyoming Territorial Supreme Court | |
| In office January 11, 1882 – April 14, 1886 | |
| Appointed by | Chester A. Arthur |
| Preceded by | William Ware Peck |
| Succeeded by | Samuel T. Corn |
| Associate Justice of the New Mexico Territorial Supreme Court | |
| In office January 22, 1882 – January 11, 1882 | |
| Appointed by | Rutherford B. Hayes |
| Preceded by | Samuel B. McLin |
| Succeeded by | Joseph Bell |
| Associate Justice of the Idaho Territorial Supreme Court | |
| In office March 10, 1863 – May 1865 | |
| Appointed by | Abraham Lincoln |
| Preceded by | position established |
| Succeeded by | Milton Kelly |
| Member of the Illinois House of Representatives | |
| In office 1855 | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | March 25, 1820 Middlebury, Vermont, U.S. |
| Died | February 8, 1917 (aged 96) Kansas City, Missouri, U.S. |
| Political party | Republican |
| Spouse |
Elizabeth A. Turley (m. 1853) |
| Children | 4 |
Samuel Chipman Parks (March 25, 1820 – February 8, 1917) was an American lawyer and jurist who practiced law with Abraham Lincoln, and was later appointed to serve as a justice of three different territorial supreme courts by three different presidents, serving on the Idaho Territorial Supreme Court from 1862 to 1865, the New Mexico Territorial Supreme Court from 1878 to 1882, and the Wyoming Territorial Supreme Court from 1882 to 1886.