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JOHN JOHNSTON PARKER
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PAPERS, 1928-1957
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UNCC MANUSCRIPT COLLECTION 251
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| Contents: |
Collection Information |
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Biographical Note |
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Scope and Content Note/Container
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Size:
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1.0 linear feet (ca. 1,800 items). |
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| Locales: |
Charlotte (N.C.). |
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| Bulk Dates: |
1928-1957. |
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| Languages: |
English. |
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| Summary: |
Speeches and a few offprints of articles by a judge of the
U.S. Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals and alternate judge at the Nuremberg
Trial. This collection does not contain any material related to Parker's
rejection as an U.S. Supreme Court nominee in 1930. [NOTE: the majority
of Judge Parker's papers are on file at the Southern Historical Collection,
Manuscripts Department, UNC at Chapel Hill.] |
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| Index Terms: |
Judges-United States--History--20th century. |
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Nuremberg Trial of Major German War Criminals, Nuremberg,
Germany, 1945-1946. |
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Parker, John Johnston, 1885-1958. |
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United States. Circuit Court (4th Circuit)--Officials and
employees. |
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| Sources: |
Gift of Francis I. Parker, 1998. |
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| Access: |
Unrestricted. |
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| Copyright: |
Not held by UNC Charlotte Library. |
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| Citation: |
John Johnston Parker Papers, University of North Carolina
at Charlotte Library. |
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| Contact Information: |
For more information about this collection, please contact:
Special Collections Department
J. Murrey Atkins Library
University of North Carolina at Charlotte
9201 University City Blvd.
Charlotte, NC 28223-0001
E-mail: speccoll@uncc.edu
Telephone: (704) 687-2449
Fax: (704) 687-2232 |
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| Related Collections: |
Harry Golden Papers (UNC Charlotte Manuscript
20). |
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John
Johnston Parker Papers, UNC-Chapel Hill (SHC #3464). |
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John
Johnston Parker, Records of Nuremberg Trial of Major German War Criminals,
UNC Chapel Hill (SHC #3566). |
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| John Johnston Parker was born in Monroe, N.C.
on November 20, 1885 to John Daniel Parker, an independent grocer, and Frances
Ann Johnston. Through his mother's family, Judge Parker descended from a
line of early North Carolina governors and Associate Justice James Iredell
of the U.S. Supreme Court (1790-99). Parker received an A.B. degree in 1907
and the L. L. B. in 1908 from the University of North Carolina in Chapel
Hill. He worked as a lawyer in Monroe until 1922 when he moved to Charlotte.
There he headed the firm of Parker, Stewart, McRae, and Bobbitt. President
Coolidge gave Parker a recess appointment to the U.S. Court of Appeals for
the Fourth Circuit on October 3, 1925 and a lifetime appointment on December
14, 1925. |
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| President Hoover appointed Judge Parker to the
U.S. Supreme Court on March 21, 1930, but U.S. Senate blocked his confirmation.
Following World War II, President Truman appointed Parker an alternate member
for the United States for the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg,
Germany (1945-46). He presided as Chief Judge of the United States Court
of Appeals Fourth Circuit until his death on March 17, 1958. Parker married
Maria Burgwin Maffitt on November 23, 1910 and they had three children. |
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SCOPE AND CONTENT
NOTE/CONTAINER LIST
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| This collection is comprised largely of speeches
given by Judge Parker. In addition to drafts of speeches, there are copies
of lectures given to law students, some book reviews and correspondence,
and copies of articles published in law journals. This collection does not
represent his complete judicial or personal files. |
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Contents |
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BIOGRAPHICAL/MISCELLANY (ca. 1958, n.d.): includes a program
from Parker's memorial service (ca. 1958). Also contains a bibliography
of the John J. Parker Memorial Collection in Human Relations at the Public
Library of Charlotte and Mecklenburg County. |
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BOOK REVIEWS (1944, 1948-1956): contains reviews written
by Parker for legal and scholarly works, including one for Tyranny on Trial;
The Evidence at Nuremberg by Whitney R. Harris (Dallas: Southern Methodist
University Press, 1954). |
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CORRESPONDENCE (1932, 1937, 1951): includes a series of letters
between Parker and W. M. Hendren, an attorney in Winston-Salem, N.C. In
these they discuss the latter's article, "Covert Legislation and Constitutional
Limitations." |
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LECTURES (1940): contains notes, sources consulted, and newspaper
clippings concerning Parker's series of the William H. White lectures before
the University of Virginia Law School (April-May, 1940). |
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PUBLISHED ARTICLES (1943-1954): includes articles printed
in the Harvard Law Review (vol. 56:4, January, 1943) and the New York University
Law Review (vol. 25:1, January, 1950). |
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SPEECHES (1928-1956): includes one given on May 15, 1945 at
the United Nations conference on International Organization in San Francisco,
as well as research and newspapers clippings about the event (folders 52-53). |
