Severn Eyre Parker (July 19, 1787 – October 21, 1836) was a nineteenth-century politician and lawyer from

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Biography

Born near

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, Parker attended the common schools as a child. He studied law and was admitted to the

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. He became a member of the

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, serving from 1809 to 1812. He was appointed deputy clerk of

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, on March 8, 1813, and was

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of a rifle

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in 1814. Parker served in the

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from 1817 to 1820 and was elected a

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to the

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in 1818, serving from 1819 to 1821. He returned to the House of Delegates in 1828, 1829 and from 1834 to 1836. Parker died on October 21, 1836, in

, and was interred in a private cemetery on Kendall Grove Farm near

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