Parker, Richard Elliott, 1783-1840

The Hon. Richard Elliott Parker was appointed a judge of the general court on July 26, 1817. He served as a U.S. Senator from 1836-1837, resigning to serve as a Justice of the Virginia Supreme Court from 1837-1840. He fought during the War of 1812 as Lieutenant Colonel in the Thirty-fifth Virginia Regiment Militia. He was born in Westmoreland County, Virginia, the son of William Parker and Mary Sturman Parker. He married Elizabeth Foushee on June 2, 1808 in Richmond, Virginia, and they had ten children. In the 1820 U.S. census, he was living in a household of eleven people in Norfolk, four of whom he enslaved. He's buried at Grace Episcopal Church Cemetery in Berryville, Virginia.