Joel Parker

Joel Parker (January 25, 1795 – August 17, 1875) was an American jurist from New Hampshire.

Biography Joel Parker was born at Jaffrey, New Hampshire on January 25, 1795. He studied at Groton Academy, and later Dartmouth College, where he graduated in 1811. He gave an Address to Phi Beta Kappa in 1848 called "Progress." It was incredibly optimistic, a typical position of the Democratic Party. He studied at Groton Academy.

Works Progress: An Address before the Phi Beta Kappa Society of Dartmouth College (Hanover, New Hampshire, 1846) https://books.google.com/books/about/Progress_An_address_before_the_Phi_Beta.html?id=b7ZcAAAAcAAJ Daniel Webster as a Jurist, an address to the Harvard Law School (Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1853) A Charge to the Grand Jury on the Uncertainty of Law (1854) Non-Extension of Slavery (1856) Personal Liberty Laws (1861) The Right of Secession (1861) Constitutional Law (1862) Habeas Corpus and Martial Law (Philadelphia, 1862) The War Powers of Congress and of the President (1863) Revolution and Reconstruction (1866) The Three Powers of Government (1869) Conflict of Decisions (1875)