Parsons, Richard C
lawyer, state legislator, congressman, was born Oct. 10, 1826, in New London, Conn. In 1851 he was elected a member of the city council of Cleveland, and the next year president of that body. In 1857 he was elected to the Ohio legislature; re-elected, and chosen speaker of the house. He was appointed consul at Rio Janeiro; was appointed collector of internal revenue at Cleveland for four years; and in 1866 received the appointment of marshal of the supreme court of the United States, and served six years. He was elected to the forty-third congress.