James John "Jim" Parker (born December 21, 1967) is a healthcare administrator who ran for the United States Congress in the Second District of the state of Ohio in (map) in the special primary held June 14, 2005. Parker sought the Democratic nomination in 2006 to challenge Congresswoman Jean Schmidt in the same district but lost the primary to Victoria Wells Wulsin. Immediately after the election, he supported his opponent in her bid to unseat Jean Schmidt. Jim Parker believes that Ted Strickland is the greatest Governor Ohio has ever known and plans to run for Congress again in 2010. He has been referred to throughout Southern Ohio as a Healthcare Candidate for the American Middle Class. Some people have referred to Jim Parker as the hardest working candidate in Southern Ohio history. He plans to knock on the doors of 20,000 (twenty thousand) people before the Democratic primary in 2010.