Elijah Parish
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Elijah Parish (November 7, 1762– October 15, 1825) was a New England clergyman of the early nineteenth century.
Parish was a native of Lebanon, Connecticut. He graduated from Dartmouth College in 1785. In the early nineteenth century he was a leading opponent of the Jeffersonian Republican Party and brought issues of slavery into his political discourse. Parish was elected a member of the American Antiquarian Society in 1813.[http://www.americanantiquarian.org/memberlistp American Antiquarian Society Members Directory]
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- [http://faculty.gordon.edu/hu/bi/ted_hildebrandt/NEReligiousHistory/Parish-ByfieldSermons1826/ParishSermons1826.pdf Parish biography] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160429191141/http://faculty.gordon.edu/hu/bi/ted_hildebrandt/NEReligiousHistory/Parish-ByfieldSermons1826/ParishSermons1826.pdf |date=2016-04-29 }}
- Mason, Matthew. Slavery and Politics in the Early American Republic. (2006) {{ISBN|978-0-8078-3049-9}}.
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Category:American Christian clergy
Category:Dartmouth College alumni
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