Albion Parris (19 January 1788 – 11 February 1857) was a member of the US House of Representatives (DR-MA 20) from 4 March 1815 to 3 February 1818 (succeeding Levi Hubbard and preceding Enoch Lincoln), Governor of Maine from 5 January 1822 to 3 January 1827 (succeeding Daniel Rose and preceding Enoch Lincoln), and a Democratic US Senator from 4 March 1827 to 26 August 1828 (interrupting John Holmes' terms).
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Albion Parris was born in Hebron, Maine on 19 January 1788, and he became a lawyer in Paris, Maine in 1810. He served as Oxford County prosecutor from 1811 to 1813, in the State House from 1813 to 1814, in the US House of Representatives from 1815 to 1818, as a US district court judge from 1818 to 1822, as Governor of Maine from 1822 to 1827, in the US Senate from 1827 to 1828 (the most conservative Jacksonian of the 20th Senate), on the Maine Supreme Judicial Court from 1828 to 1836, as Comptroller of Currency from 1836 to 1850, as Mayor of Portland in 1852, and as the unsuccessful Democratic gubernatorial candidate in 1854. He died in 1857.