Samuel C. Parks

Samuel C. Parks
Associate Justice of the Wyoming Territorial Supreme Court
In office
January 11, 1882  April 14, 1886
Appointed byChester A. Arthur
Preceded byWilliam Ware Peck
Succeeded bySamuel T. Corn
Associate Justice of the New Mexico Territorial Supreme Court
In office
January 22, 1882  January 11, 1882
Appointed byRutherford B. Hayes
Preceded bySamuel B. McLin
Succeeded byJoseph Bell
Associate Justice of the Idaho Territorial Supreme Court
In office
March 10, 1863  May 1865
Appointed byAbraham Lincoln
Preceded byposition established
Succeeded byMilton Kelly
Member of the Illinois House of Representatives
In office
1855
Personal details
Born(1820-03-25)March 25, 1820
Middlebury, Vermont, U.S.
DiedFebruary 8, 1917(1917-02-08) (aged 96)
Kansas City, Missouri, U.S.
Political partyRepublican
Spouse
Elizabeth A. Turley
(m. 1853)
Children4

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.