Isaac Charles Parker (15 October 1838-17 November 1896) was a member of the US House of Representatives (R-MO 7) from 4 March 1871 to 3 March 1875, succeeding Joel Funk Asper and preceding Thomas Theodore Crittenden.
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Isaac Charles Parker was born in Barnesville, Ohio in 1838, and he became a lawyer in 1859. He settled in St. Joseph, Missouri at the start of the American Civil War, and he served as the Democratic city attorney of St. Joseph and served in the Union Army. He was a Radical Republican member of the US House of Representatives from 1871 to 1875, and he supported the enfranchisement of women and the organization of the Indian Territory. He went on to serve as a federal judge in Arkansas from 1875 until his death in 1896, and he was nicknamed the "Hanging Judge", as he sentenced 160 Wild West outlaws to death and executed 79 of them.
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