Benjamin Parke
United States federal judge (1777-1835) · United States · On the map · Politicians · Died at 57
Benjamin Parke was an American lawyer, politician, militia officer, businessman, treaty negotiator in the Indiana Territory who also served as a United States federal judge in Indiana after it attained statehood in 1816.
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Parke was the Indiana Territory's attorney general (1804-1808); a representative to the territory's first general assembly (1805); its first territorial delegate to the United States House of Representatives (1805-1808); one of the five Knox County delegates to the Indiana constitutional convention of 1816; and a territorial court judge (1808-1816). After Indiana attained statehood, Parke served as the first United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Indiana (1817-1835).
