Albion K. Parris was born in Maine on January 19, 1788. A Democratic-Republican lawyer, he represented Massachusetts in the U.S. House from 1815 to 1818 and later served as the Governor of Maine from 1822 to 1827. He then served a year in the U.S. Senate before becoming a judge on the Maine State Supreme Court from 1828 to 1836. In 1836 he became the 2nd Comptroller of the U.S. Treasury, serving in that position until 1850. He died in Portland, Maine on February 11, 1857.