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Alton Brooks Parker (May 14, 1852 – May 10, 1926) was an American judge. He was the Democratic nominee in the 1904 United States presidential election, losing in a landslide to incumbent Republican Theodore Roosevelt.
Alton Brooks Parker (Cortland, 14 maggio 1852 – New York, 10 maggio 1926) è stato un avvocato, politico e giudice statunitense. Laureatosi in legge a Kingston, New York, Parker fu giudice della Corte Suprema di New York dal 1885 al 1889, mentre in seguito (1897 - 1904) fu il presidente della Corte d'Appello di New York.
Alton B. Parker was an American jurist and Democratic presidential nominee in 1904, defeated by the incumbent, Theodore Roosevelt. Having practiced law in Kingston, N.Y., Parker was elected surrogate of Ulster county in 1877 and reelected six years later.
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Biography. In 1898, Judge Parker was elected to the Court of Appeals as Chief Judge. See his full biography HERE. Alton B. Parker has been described as the most unfairly forgotten of forgotten men.
When Governor Cleveland ran for President in 1884, Parker was a delegate to the Democratic National Convention in Chicago. Giving speeches around the State, Parker was able to deliver the New York Democracy to Cleveland over the opposition of Tammany Hall.
This first full-length biography of Alton Brooks Parker provides an in-depth look into the life, career, and legacy of one of the most important New Yorkers of the Gilded Age. Parker had the courage to challenge Theodore Roosevelt for the presidency in 1904—at the height of Roosevelt’s popularity—and was a transition point between the ...
ALTON B. PARKER. Associate Justice: 1897. Born: May 14, 1851. Died: May 10, 1926. Alton B. Parker has been described as the most unfairly forgotten of forgotten men. (Irving Stone, They Also Ran: The Story of the Men Who Were Defeated for the Presidency, Doubleday & Company, Inc., Garden City, NY, 1943, p. 81.)
