Isaac Parker served as a United States representative from Missouri and was appointed as the first United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the Western District of Arkansas, which had jurisdiction over Indian Territory.
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Isaac Parker attended Breeze Hill Primary School, followed by the Barnesville Classical Institute, a private school.
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Isaac Parker taught in a county primary school to pay for his secondary education.
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On December 12,1861, Isaac Parker married Mary O'Toole, with whom he had sons Charles and James.
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Isaac Parker represented clients in the municipal and country courts.
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Isaac Parker served three one-year terms, from April 1861 to 1863.
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Isaac Parker had reached the rank of corporal by the end of the war.
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Isaac Parker ran as a Republican for county prosecutor of the Ninth Missouri Judicial District.
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In 1868, Isaac Parker won a six-year term as judge of the Twelfth Missouri Circuit.
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Isaac Parker was nominated for Missouri's 7th congressional district on September 13,1870, backed by the Radical faction of the Republican party.
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Isaac Parker resigned his judgeship and devoted his energy to his campaign.
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Isaac Parker won the election after his opponent withdrew two weeks prior to the vote.
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Isaac Parker was elected as a Republican to the United States House of Representatives of the 42nd and 43rd United States Congresses, serving from March 4,1871, to March 3,1875.
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Isaac Parker was the caucus nominee of his party for United States Senator in 1874.
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Isaac Parker sponsored a failed bill designed to enfranchise women and allow them to hold public office in United States territories.
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Isaac Parker sponsored legislation to organize the Indian Territory under a territorial government.
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Isaac Parker was again elected to Missouri's 7th district in the forty-third Congress.
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In 1874, Isaac Parker was the caucus nominee of the Republican Party for a Missouri Senate seat.
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At his own request, Parker was instead nominated by President Ulysses S Grant on March 18,1875, to a seat on the United States District Court for the Western District of Arkansas.
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Isaac Parker was confirmed by the United States Senate on March 19,1875, and received his commission the same day.
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Isaac Parker served in this position until his death in office, on November 17,1896.
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Isaac Parker arrived in Fort Smith on May 4,1875, initially without his family.
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In May 1875, Isaac Parker tried 18 men during his first session of court, all of whom were charged with murder; 15 were convicted in jury trials.
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Isaac Parker sentenced eight of them to a mandatory death penalty.
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Isaac Parker ordered six of the men to be executed at the same time on September 3,1875.
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Isaac Parker's court had final jurisdiction over federal crimes in the Indian Territory from 1875 until 1889, as there was no court available for appeals.
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Isaac Parker's court sat six days a week in order to ensure prosecuting as many cases as possible each term, and often up to ten hours each day.
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Forty-four cases in which Isaac Parker imposed the death penalty were appealed to the Supreme Court.
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Isaac Parker was the first president of St John's Hospital, established by the local St John's Episcopal Church.
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Isaac Parker was convicted in a case that lasted from February 26 to June 25,1895, and Parker sentenced him to death.
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Isaac Parker was tried again and convicted in Parker's court; the judge sentenced him to death on December 2,1895.
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Isaac Parker clashed with the Supreme Court on a number of occasions.
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In 1894, Isaac Parker gained national attention in a dispute with the Supreme Court over the case of Lafayette Hudson.
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Isaac Parker appealed to the Supreme Court and was granted bail.
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Isaac Parker refused to release Hudson on the grounds that statute law did not provide the Supreme Court with the authority to demand Hudson's release.
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Isaac Parker died on November 17,1896, of a number of health conditions, including heart degeneration and Bright's disease.
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