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Paul Michael Parker is an American businessman and politician from the U.S. state of Mississippi. He served in Congress as a member of the Democratic Party and,later,the Republican Party. He later served as Assistant Secretary of the U.S. Army,with authority over the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.
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