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{{short description|American lawyer}}
'''Herbert Parker''' (March 2 1856 - ?), of [[Lancaster, Massachusetts|Lancaster]], [[Worcester County, Massachusetts|Worcester County]], [[Massachusetts]], was a Massachusetts politician.▼
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{{infobox officeholder
| image = Herbert Parker.png
| office = [[Attorney General of Massachusetts]]
| term_start = 1902
| term_end = 1906
| predecessor = [[Hosea M. Knowlton]]
| successor = [[Dana Malone]]
| birth_date = {{birth date|1856|03|02}}
| birth_place = [[Charlestown, Massachusetts]], US
| death_date = {{dda|1939|02|11|1856|03|02}}
| death_place = [[Lancaster, Massachusetts]], US
| alma_mater = [[Harvard College]]
| party = [[Republican (US)|Republican]]
| parents =
| spouse = Mary Carney Vose
| children = [[George Alanson Parker]]<br>[[Katherine Vose Parker]]<br>Edith Parker Ross<br>Haven Parker
| relations = [[Cornelius Conway Felton]] (uncle)<br>[[Samuel Morse Felton, Sr.]] (uncle)<br>[[John B. Felton]] (uncle)<br>[[Samuel Morse Felton, Jr.]] (cousin)
}}
▲'''Herbert Parker''' (March 2, 1856
==Early life==
Parker was born in [[Charlestown, Boston|Charlestown]] (now part of [[Boston]]), [[Suffolk County, Massachusetts]] on March 2, 1856.<ref name=Progress>{{Cite book |url=https://archive.org/details/menofprogressone00her/page/335 |title=Men of Progress: One Thousand Biographical Sketches and Portraits of Leaders in Business and Professional Life in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts |editor-last=Bacon |editor-first=Edwin M. |editor-link=Edwin Munroe Bacon |publisher=[[The New England Magazine]] |location=Boston |page=335 |year=1896 |access-date=2022-01-19 |via=Internet Archive}}</ref> He was a son of George A. Parker and Harriet Newell ({{nee}} Felton) Parker (1822–1914). His brother, Harold Parker, was one of the first highway commissioners in Massachusetts and planned many of the highways in the state.<ref name="1930Election">{{cite news |title=Heads Women's Republican Club: Miss Katherine V. Parker Elected President Active in Public Service, Business Woman, Conducts Large Farm |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/86187413/heads-womens-republican-club/ |access-date=2022-01-19 |work=[[The Boston Globe]] |date=27 May 1930 |page=9 |via=Newspapers.com}}</ref>
His maternal grandparents were Anna ({{nee}} Morse) Felton and Cornelius Conway Felton Sr. Among his maternal family were uncles, [[Cornelius Conway Felton]] (the President of Harvard from 1860 to 1862), [[Samuel Morse Felton, Sr.]], [[John B. Felton]],<ref>{{cite book |author=William Bentinck-Smith |title=The Harvard Book: Selections From Three Centuries |year=1982 |publisher=Harvard University Press |isbn=978-0-674-37301-3 |url-access=registration |url=https://archive.org/details/harvardbookselec00bent }}</ref> and his cousin was [[Samuel Morse Felton, Jr.]]<ref>{{cite web |url=http://americanhistory.si.edu/archives/d8170.htm |title=Samuel Morse Felton Family Papers, 1841-1930 |accessdate=2006-02-08 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20060203062056/http://americanhistory.si.edu/archives/d8170.htm |archivedate=2006-02-03 }}</ref>
He graduated from [[Harvard College]] in 1878.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.thecrimson.com/article/1906/2/8/hon-herbert-parker-to-speak-tonight/|title=Hon. Herbert Parker to Speak Tonight - News - The Harvard Crimson|website=www.thecrimson.com}}</ref>
==Career==
Parker was a [[Republican (US)|Republican]]. He was a lawyer and served as [[Attorney General of Massachusetts]] from 1902 to 1906. He was a [[Unitarianism|Unitarian]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/parker4.html#871.33.21|title=The Political Graveyard: Index to Politicians: Parker, G to I|first=Lawrence|last=Kestenbaum|website=politicalgraveyard.com}}</ref>
==Personal life==
Parker was married to Mary Carney Vose, a daughter of Caroline [[Harvey Cushing|Cushing]] ({{nee}} [[Forbes family|Forbes]]) Vose and Lt. Josiah Hayden Vose Jr., who was killed at the [[Battle of Port Hudson]] in the [[U.S. Civil War]]. Together, they were the parents of:<ref name="Reno1901"/>
* [[George Alanson Parker]] (1887–1966), who married Anne Holden (1896–1958), a daughter of Charles W. Holden.<ref name="Reno1901"/>
* [[Katherine Vose Parker]] (1888–1983), a member of the [[Massachusetts House of Representatives]].<ref name="Harvard1892">{{cite book |last1=of 1878 |first1=Harvard College (1780-) Class |title=Secretary's Report |date=1892 |publisher=Riverside Press |page=164 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cyhOAAAAMAAJ |access-date=29 September 2021 |language=en}}</ref>
* Edith Parker (1893–1968), who married Thorvald Salicath Ross (1887–1965).<ref name="Reno1901"/>
* Haven Parker, who became Assistant Federal District Attorney General of Massachusetts and a judge.<ref name="Reno1901">{{cite book |last1=Reno |first1=Conrad |title=Biographical: Massachusetts |date=1901 |publisher=Century Memorial Publishing Company |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vWswAQAAMAAJ |access-date=29 September 2021 |language=en}}</ref>
Parker died on February 11, 1939, at his home in [[Lancaster, Massachusetts]].<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/92967578/bar-leader-in-bay-state-dead-at-82/ |title=Bar Leader in Bay State Dead at 82 |newspaper=[[Hartford Courant]] |location=Lancaster, Massachusetts |agency=AP |page=19 |date=1939-02-12 |access-date=2022-01-19 |via=Newspapers.com}}</ref>
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==External links==
*{{find a Grave|147478892}}
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