Marshall Joyner Parker was a Republican politician from the US state of South Carolina.
11 Facts About Marshall Parker
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Marshall Parker graduated in 1944 from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
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Marshall Parker was thereafter elected as a Democrat to the South Carolina State Senate, having represented Oconee County, which includes his hometown of Seneca.
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Marshall Parker remained in the state Senate from 1957 to 1967, in which capacity he was instrumental in the creation of his state's technical education system.
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Marshall Parker owned and operated Oconee Daries, a milk processing plant, which serviced the Golden Corner of South Carolina.
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In 1966, Marshall Parker switched to Republican affiliation to run for the US Senate.
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Marshall Parker ran for Congress from South Carolina's 3rd congressional district but was defeated.
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Marshall Parker retired to his Oconee County farm, where he raised beef cattle.
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Marshall Parker was a member of both the Veterans of Foreign Wars and the American Legion and a former member of the Seneca Lions, Sertoma, and Rotary International clubs.
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Marshall Parker was a former trustee and a past president of the Capital Foundation of Tri-County Technical College in Pendleton, South Carolina.
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Marshall Parker died at the age of eighty-six at Oconee Medical Center in Seneca, South Carolina, after experiencing a year of declining health.