| 词条 | Josiah Parker |
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|honorific-prefix = |name = Josiah Parker |honorific-suffix = |image = Josiah-parker.png |alt = |state = Virginia |district = 11th |term_start = March 4, 1793 |term_end = March 3, 1801 |predecessor = District established |successor = Thomas Newton, Jr. |state2 = Virginia |district2 = 8th |term_start2 = March 4, 1789 |term_end2 = March 3, 1793 |predecessor2 = District established |successor2 = Thomas Claiborne |office3 = Member of the Virginia House of Delegates from Isle of Wight County |term3 = 1782–1783 Alongside John S. Wills |term4 = 1779 Alongside John S. Wills |birth_date = {{Birth date|1751|05|11}} |birth_place = Isle of Wight County, Virginia |death_date = {{Death date and age|1810|03|11|1751|05|11}} |death_place = Isle of Wight County, Virginia |party = Federalist |otherparty = Pro-Administration |branch = Continental Army |serviceyears = 1775–1778 |rank = Colonel |unit = 5th Virginia Regiment |commands = |battles = American Revolutionary War *Battle of Trenton *Battle of Princeton *Battle of Brandywine *Battle of Germantown |spouse = Mary Pierce Bridger }} Josiah Parker (May 11, 1751 – March 11, 1810) was an American politician who was a member of the United States House of Representatives from Virginia in the First through Sixth United States Congresses. Early lifeParker was born at the Macclesfield Estate in Isle of Wight County, Virginia. In 1773, he married the widow Mary Pierce Bridger. They had one child, Anne Pierce Parker (ca 1775, Isle of Wight Co., VA - March 21, 1849).[1] In 1775, Parker became a member of the state Committee of Safety. He attended the Virginia Convention that met in March, July, and December of that year. Revolutionary WarWhen the American Revolutionary War began in April 1775, Parker enlisted in the Continental Army. He was promptly commissioned a major in the 5th Virginia Regiment on February 13, 1776, promoted to lieutenant colonel on July 28, 1777, and became its colonel on April 1, 1778. His regiment served in Virginia under General Charles Lee until the autumn of 1776, when the 5th Virginia Regiment was transferred to George Washington’s army. The regiment thereafter saw action at the Battle of Trenton, Battle of Princeton, Battle of Brandywine, Battle of Germantown, Battle of Monmouth and the Siege of Charleston. At the Battle of Trenton, Parker had the honor to receive Hessian Colonel Johann Rall's sword of surrender and he alone holds a sword in the painting, The Capture of the Hessians at Trenton, December 26, 1776 by John Trumbull.[2][3] Parker resigned from the army on July 12, 1778 and became a member of the Virginia House of Delegates for 1778, 1779, 1782 and 1783. During Cornwallis's Virginia campaign in 1781, the notorious Colonel Tarleton ransacked his home.[4] In August 1781, Lafayette sent him to Portsmouth, Virginia on a reconnaissance. He found the British had embarked for Yorktown. Parker recovered 25 cannons the British had thrown into the sea to prevent their capture.[5] Post-warIn 1786, Parker was commissioned a naval officer at Portsmouth, Virginia. He ran to become a delegate to the 1788 Virginia Convention, since he opposed surrendering Virginia's hard won independence by ratifying the United States Constitution.[6] However, he was elected to the First United States Congress, was reelected to the Second and Third Congresses. He was elected as a Federalist to the Fourth through Sixth United States Congress. Declaring it was time to "wipe off the stigma" of slavery that stained America, Parker became the first national legislator in American history to formally introduce an antislavery motion in congress.[7] Parker then returned home and engaged in agriculture. He died in 1810, and was buried in the family cemetery on his plantation, "Macclesfield", in Isle of Wight County, Virginia. LegacyHis grandson, Leopold Copeland Parker Cowper, served in the Virginia House of Delegates as lieutenant governor in the Restored Government of Virginia during the American Civil War. The Col. Josiah Parker Family Cemetery was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2004.[8] A World War II Liberty Ship, SS Josiah Parker, was named in his honor. {{-}}References1. ^Thomas Parker of Isle of Wight Co {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090318142331/http://www.sallysfamilyplace.com/Parker/tompark.htm |date=March 18, 2009 }} 2. ^{{cite book|last1=Ward|first1=Harry M.|title=For Virginia and for Independence: Twenty-Eight Revolutionary War Soldiers from the Old Dominion|chapter=Josiah Parker|date=2011|pages=60–61|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=scNEB1PtH_8C&lpg=PA187&pg=PA60|isbn=9780786486014}} 3. ^{{cite web |url=http://www.dhr.virginia.gov/registers/Counties/IsleofWight/046-5049_Colonel_Josiah_Parker_Family_Cemetery_2004_Final_Nomination.pdf|title=NRHP Nomination: Col. Josiah Parker Family Cemetery| date=2004|publisher=Virginia Department of Historic Resources|page=15}} 4. ^{{cite book| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jEoOAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA299 | title=Old Churches, Ministers and Families of Virginia | author=William Meade| page=229| publisher=J.B. Lippincott & company| year=1891 }} 5. ^{{cite book| author=David A. Clary| title=Adopted Son| page=324| publisher=Bantam Books| isbn=978-0-553-80435-5}} 6. ^{{cite book| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ve0UAAAAYAAJ&pg=PT210 | title=The twentieth century biographical dictionary of notable Americans| editors=Rossiter Johnson, John Howard Brown| publisher=The Biographical Society| year=1904 }} 7. ^{{Cite book|title = The First Congress|last = Bordewich|first = Fergus|publisher = Simon & Schuster|year = 2016|isbn =|location =|pages =}} 8. ^{{NRISref|version=2010a}} External links{{CongBio|P000065}}
| state=Virginia | district=8 | before=District established | years=1789–1793 | after=Thomas Claiborne }}{{USRepSuccessionBox | state=Virginia | district=11 | before=District established | years=1793–1801 | after=Thomas Newton }}{{s-end}}{{Authority control}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Parker, Josiah}} 8 : 1751 births|1810 deaths|Members of the United States House of Representatives from Virginia|Members of the Virginia House of Delegates|Continental Army officers from Virginia|Virginia Federalists|Federalist Party members of the United States House of Representatives|People from Isle of Wight County, Virginia |
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