Parker Corning was a United States Representative from New York. Born in Albany

Albany, New York

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, he attended the public schools, The Albany Academy

The Albany Academy

The Albany Academy is an independent college preparatory day school for boys in Albany, New York, USA, enrolling students from Preschool to Grade 12. It was established in 1813 by a charter signed by Mayor Philip Schuyler Van Rensselaer and the city council of Albany...

, and St. Paul's School

St. Paul's School (Concord, New Hampshire)

St. Paul's School is a highly selective college-preparatory, coeducational boarding school in Concord, New Hampshire affiliated with the Episcopal Church. The school is one of only six remaining 100% residential boarding schools in the U.S. The New Hampshire campus currently serves 533 students,...

 in Concord, New Hampshire

Concord, New Hampshire

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. He graduated from Yale University

Yale University

Yale University is a private, Ivy League university located in New Haven, Connecticut, United States. Founded in 1701 in the Colony of Connecticut, the university is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States...

 in 1895, engaged in the manufacture of steel and woolens, and was also interested in banking.

Corning was elected as a Democrat

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 to the Sixty-eighth and to the six succeeding Congresses, holding office from March 4, 1923 to January 3, 1937. He was not a candidate for renomination in 1936 and resumed his former pursuits. In 1943 he died in Albany; interment was in Albany Rural Cemetery

Albany Rural Cemetery

The Albany Rural Cemetery was established October 7, 1844, in Menands, New York, just outside of the city of Albany, New York. It is renowned as one of the most beautiful, pastoral cemeteries in the United States, at over . Many historical American figures are buried there.-History:On April 2,...

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His grandfather Erastus Corning

Erastus Corning

Erastus Corning I , American businessman and politician, was born in Norwich, Connecticut. Corning moved to Troy, New York at the age of 13 to clerk in the hardware store of an uncle; six years later he moved to Albany, New York, where he joined the mercantile business under James Spencer...

 was also a U.S. Representative from New York, his brother Edwin Corning

Edwin Corning

Edwin Corning was an American businessman and politician from New York. He was Lieutenant Governor of New York from 1927 to 1928.-Life:...

 was Lieutenant Governor of New York, and his nephew Erastus Corning 2nd

Erastus Corning 2nd

Erastus Corning 2nd was an American politician. He was Mayor of Albany, New York for more than 40 years, from 1942 to 1983, when Albany County was controlled by one of the last two classic urban political machines in the United States. Albany's longest serving mayor, the Democrat died in office in...

 was Mayor of Albany.

On November 1, 1910, Parker Corning married Mrs. Anna Cassin McClure, divorced wife of Archibald Jermain McClure. http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/latimes/access/342551372.html?dids=342551372:342551372&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:AI&type=historic&date=Nov+01%2C+1910&author=&pub=Los+Angeles+Times&desc=MAGAZINE+BEAUTY+WEDS+AGAIN.&pqatl=google

Parker Corning owned a number of successful Thoroughbred

Thoroughbred

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 racehorses

Horse racing

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that were raced under his wife's name. http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F20C10FD345D167B93C6A9178FD85F478485F9