Marion Arendell Parrott (August 23, 1918 – October 27, 2000) was an American lawyer.
He served during World War II as a paratrooper with the United States Army 101st Airborne Division.
From there he returned to his unit in France and took part in the final advance into Germany at war’s end, at which point he was discharged as a Major.
[1] Parrott was a former member of the North Carolina General Assembly, where he was chairman of the Committee on Constitutional Amendments.
He was unsuccessful in convincing Tom Waring, a South Carolina journalist, to found a newspaper to compete with the Raleigh News & Observer.