Parker was elected as a Republican to the Fifty-second and to the seven succeeding Congresses , holding office from March 4 , 1895 to March 3 , 1911 . During the Sixty-first Congress , he was chairman of the Committee on the Judiciary . He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1910 to the Sixty-fifth Congress and resumed the practice of law in Newark . He was then elected to the Sixty-third Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Walter I. McCoy , was reelected to the Sixty-fourth and Sixty-fifth Congresses , and served from December 1 , 1914 , to March 3 , 1919 . He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1918 to the Sixty-sixth Congress and was a delegate to the 1916 Republican National Convention . He was elected to the Sixty-seventh Congress , holding office from March 4 , 1921 to March 3 , 1923 , and was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1922 to the Sixty-eighth Congress
1916 Republican National Convention
1916 Republican National Convention
Richard W. Parker