James McClary Parsons (1941 – December 26, 2015) was an American civil servant, politician and businessman who served as the Mayor of Juneau, Alaska, from 1991 until 1994.
[2] Parsons also spearheaded a campaign to form an informal committee to improve the quality of life in Juneau.
Instead, Parsons focused on the defeat of a 1994 ballot initiative, which would have moved the state capital from Juneau to Wasilla, in Southcentral Alaska.
He traveled throughout Southeast Alaska to encourage the high voter turnout needed to defeat the measure.
"[1] Parsons proposed an idea to televise live coverage of the Alaska Legislature, similar to C-SPAN.
[1][5] He departed in Chamber in 2003 after his wife, a retired elementary school teacher, accepted a two-year teaching position at the Cairo American College.
[2][3] He died from the disease at his home in Mercer Island, Washington, where he had been undergoing treatment, on December 26, 2015, at the age of 74.