Charles Wolcott Parker
Charles Wolcott Parker (1862–1948) was a justice of the New Jersey Supreme Court from 1907 to 1947.[1][2] He presided at the 1926 Hall–Mills murder trial and wrote a 1935 unanimous opinion upholding the Bruno Richard Hauptmann murder conviction.[3] Parker also presided alongside Joseph B. Perskie over the NJ State Supreme Court Case, Everson vs Board of Education of Ewing Township, which would lead to the landmark US Supreme Court decision on the separation of church and state. [4]
Charles W. Parker was born in Newark on October 22, 1862. He was the younger brother of U.S. Congressman Richard W. Parker and Army Major General James Parker. Charles Parker studied at the Pingry School and Phillips Exeter Academy before earning an A.B. degree from Princeton University in 1882. In 1885, he completed an A.M. degree at Princeton and received a LL.B. degree from Columbia Law School.[3][5]
Parker was a Republican. He served as judge for the New Jersey 2nd District, 1898–1903 and circuit judge from 1903 to 1907. He was appointed by Governor Edward C. Stokes as an associate justice of the New Jersey Supreme Court in 1907, succeeding John Franklin Fort,[6] and serving thereafter until September 1947. He was conferred an honorary LL.D. degree by Princeton in 1919.[3]
Parker served in the New Jersey State Militia from 1890 to 1907, advancing from private to lieutenant colonel and serving as an assistant adjutant general from 1902 to 1907. He also served as an aide-de-camp to Governor Franklin Murphy from 1902 to 1904.[5]
Parker resided in Morristown. He died there on January 23, 1948,[3] and is interred at Mount Pleasant Cemetery in Newark.
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Kestenbaum, Lawrence. "The Political Graveyard: Parker family of Perth Amboy, New Jersey". Retrieved 27 June 2016.
- ^ Birkner, Michael J.; Linky, Donald; Mickulas, Peter (10 February 2014). The Governors of New Jersey: Biographical Essays. Rutgers University Press. ISBN 9780813571775. Retrieved 26 June 2016 – via Google Books.
- ^ a b c d "C. W. Parker Dead; Jersey Jurist, 85" (PDF). The New York Times. January 24, 1948. p. 15. Retrieved 2 November 2022.
- ^ "New Jersey School Bus Law Held Invalid; Ruling Bars Service to Parochial Pupils" (PDF).
- ^ a b "Parker, Charles Wolcott". Who's Who in Law. Vol. I. J. C. Schwarz. 1937. p. 716. Retrieved 2 November 2022.
- ^ "Appointment by Governor Stokes", Camden Courier-Post (September 26, 1907), p. 3.
External links
[edit]- Parker, Charles Wolcott (1923). The New Jersey Lawyers' Diary and Bar Directory. Nabu Press. ASIN 1179208560.
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