Andrew Parker (politician)

Andrew Parker (May 21, 1805 – January 15, 1864) was a 19th-century American lawyer and politician who was a one-term Democratic member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania from 1851 to 1853.

He attended public schools and graduated from Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, in 1824.

Parker studied law in Carlisle, was admitted to the bar in 1826 and commenced practice in Lewistown, Pennsylvania.

He was subsequently appointed deputy attorney general of Mifflin County, Pennsylvania.

This article incorporates public domain material from the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress