the 2nd Comptroller of the Currency for the United States Department of the Treasury from 1836 to 1850. He resumed private practice in Portland, Maine from 1849 to 1852. He was the Mayor of Portland in 1852. He was an unsuccessful Democratic candidate for Governor of Maine in 1854, losing to Know Nothing candidate Anson Morrill. He died on February 11, 1857, in Portland. He was interred in Western Cemetery in Portland. Special service In the fall of 1846, Parris served as one of the three commissioners negotiating a treaty at Washington, D.C. with the Winnebago (Ho-Chunk) Indians. Family Parris was the cousin of Virgil D. Parris, a United States representative from Maine. References Sources Gravesite https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/7125172/albion-keith-parris 1788 births 1857 deaths Dartmouth College alumni Democratic Party governors of Maine Maine state court judges Justices of the Maine Supreme Judicial Court Mayors of Portland, Maine Members of the Massachusetts House of Representatives Massachusetts state senators Members of the United States House of Representatives from Massachusetts People from Hebron, Maine Democratic Party United States senators from Maine Judges of the United States District Court for the District of Maine United States federal judges appointed by James Monroe 19th-century American judges Maine Democratic-Republicans Maine Jacksonians Democratic-Republican Party United States senators Democratic-Republican Party members of the United States House of Representatives from the District of Maine Massachusetts Democratic-Republicans Burials at Western Cemetery (Portland, Maine) Democratic-Republican Party state governors of the United States 19th-century American politicians