Benjamin Parke
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Benjamin Parke was an American lawyer, politician, militia officer, businessman, treaty negotiator in the Indiana Territory who also served as a United States federal judge in Indiana after it attaine
Benjamin Parke
Constitution of Indiana
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The Constitution of Indiana is the highest body of state law in the U.S. state of Indiana. It establishes the structure and function of the state and is based on the principles of federalism and Jacks
Benjamin Parke
…1805); its first territorial delegate to the United States House of Representatives (1805–1808); one of the five Knox County delegates to the Indiana constitutional convention of 1816; and a territorial court judge (1808–1816). After Indiana attained statehood, Parke served as the first United States District Judge of the…
Article II of the 1816 Indiana Constitution
Article VIII, Section 1
Article VIII, Section 1 (Continued)
Cover of the Constitution of 1851