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About Benjamin Parke
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. 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).
Everything about Benjamin Parke →- Occupation
- lawyer, judge, politician
- Position held
- non-voting member of the U.S. House of Representatives
- Citizenship
- United States
- Born
- September 2, 1777
- Died
- July 12, 1835