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Judge William R. Parker |
 | | JUDGE WILLIAM R. PARKER, head of the legal firm of Parker, Dunn and Parker, has for more than fifteen years been a leader at the bar of Tarrant county and through his wide professional activity and distinction in political and private life has become one of the foremost citizens of Fort Worth. |
 | | Born in Logan county, Kentucky, in 1851, Judge Parker is a son of Richard C. and Martha Morton (Sanford) Parker, who in 1854 returned to their former home in Sumner county, Tennessee, to the farm on which the father was born and where he died, and on which Judge Parker spent his youthful days. |
 | | Judge Parker’s political activity has extended to his serving as chairman of the Democratic campaign committee of Tarrant county, a position he has held for several years, and he has frequently gone to state and other conventions as a delegate and is a well known speaker on such occasions. |
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