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

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Biography

Joel Parker was born at

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on January 25, 1795. He studied at

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, and later

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, where he graduated in 1811. After studying law, he practiced at Keene. From 1824 to 1826, he was a member of the New Hampshire Legislature. He was appointed an associate justice of the

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in 1833 and became chief justice in 1838. He held this post until his resignation in 1848. He studied at

, In 1840 he was chairman of the committee on the revision of the New Hampshire statutes. From 1847 to 1857, he was professor of medical jurisprudence at Dartmouth. In 1848 he became a professor at the Harvard Law School, where he served until his death. Conservative in politics, he opposed during the

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the exercise by President

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of what he deemed

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powers. Joel Parker died in

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on August 17, 1875.

Works

* ''Progress'' (Hanover, New Hampshire, 1840) * ''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)

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