He ended his political career as United States Consul at Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, (1845–1849), a post later occupied by his former opponent Edward Kent
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The election was unusual in that Parks' opponent, Edward Kent of the Whig Party, lived in the same city (Bangor) and both were Harvard graduates.
Kent | University of Kent | King Edward VII | Edward I of England | Edward III of England | Edward VIII | Edward VII | Prince Edward Island | Prince Edward, Earl of Wessex | Edward III | Edward | Edward Heath | Edward G. Robinson | Edward Albee | Edward Elgar | Edward I | Edward IV of England | Kent Nagano | Edward VI of England | King Edward's School, Birmingham | Kent County Cricket Club | Edward Hopper | Edward Gibbon | Edward Burne-Jones | Prince Edward | Edward Bulwer-Lytton | Edward II of England | Clark Kent | Kent State University | Edward Weston |