Parker Warren
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Parker Warren (March 16, 1802 – July 11, 1887) was an American farmer from Beaver Dam, Wisconsin who served a one-year term in 1849 as a Free Soil Party member of the Wisconsin State Assembly from Dodge County.[1]
Warren was born in Massachusetts in 1802.[2] Warren was one of the founders of the Beaver Dam Academy, now Wayland Academy, an academy chartered by the legislature of Wisconsin Territory in 1847.[3]
When a meeting was held in Beaver Dam on February 5, 1848 to consider building a plank road from that town to Milwaukee, Warren was elected vice-president of the meeting (which resolved to pursue the project).[4]
Legislative service
Warren was elected in November 1848 for the second (1849) session of the Wisconsin Legislature after statehood, to represent the 5th Dodge County Assembly district (the Towns of Fox Lake, Trenton, Westford, Calamus and Beaver Dam),[5] succeeding Democrat Lorenzo Merrill.
He was succeeded in the 1850 session by Malcolm Sellers, a Whig. He was the Free Soil nominee in 1852 for the same seat,[6] but was defeated by Democrat Edwin Hillyer.
