Nahum Parker (March 4, 1760November 12, 1839) was a

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from

New Hampshire New Hampshire is a U.S. state, state in the New England region of the northeastern United States. It is bordered by Massachusetts to the south, Vermont to the west, Maine and the Gulf of Maine to the east, and the Canadian province of Quebec t ...

. Parker was born in Shrewsbury, Massachusetts. During the Revolutionary War he served in the

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at the

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in 1777. He settled in

Fitzwilliam, New Hampshire Fitzwilliam is a town in Cheshire County, New Hampshire, United States. The population was 2,351 at the 2020 census. Fitzwilliam is home to Rhododendron State Park, a grove of native rhododendrons that bloom in mid-July. History First granted a ...

in 1786, was a member of the board of selectmen from 1790 to 1794 and clerk and town treasurer from 1792 to 1815. Parker was a member of the

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from 1794 to 1804 and in 1806–1807; in 1804 and 1805 he was a member of the Governor's council. He was elected as a

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to the U.S. Senate and served from March 4, 1807, to June 1, 1810, when he resigned. From 1807 to 1813, Parker was a justice of the Court of Common Pleas for

Cheshire Cheshire ( ) is a ceremonial and historic county in North West England, bordered by Wales to the west, Merseyside and Greater Manchester to the north, Derbyshire to the east, and Staffordshire and Shropshire to the south. Cheshire's county t ...

and Sullivan Counties. He was associate justice of the western circuit from 1813 to 1816 and a judge of the court of sessions of Cheshire County in 1821 and of the court of common pleas of Hillsborough County in 1822. He was a member of the New Hampshire Senate and its president in 1828. Parker died in

in 1839, aged 79, and was interred in the Town Cemetery.

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