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Alton B. Parker - Wikipedia. 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 .
May 10, 2024 · 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. He also was active in state Democratic.
Learn about the life and career of Alton B. Parker, the only Court of Appeals judge who ran for President of the United States. From his humble beginnings as a farmer's son and teacher to his political rise as a Democrat and a judge, he faced many challenges and achievements.
Alton B. Parker was a prominent New York judge and politician who ran for President in 1904. Learn about his life, career, achievements and legacy from this biography by the Historical Society of the New York Courts.
The Democrats eventually united around Alton Parker, the Chief Judge of the New York Court of Appeals, as their 1904 presidential nominee. [3] Parker had been the campaign manager for New York Governor David B. Hill in 1885 and acquired a reputation for fairness, competence, and courtesy as a judge. [3]
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.)
Alton B. Parker. Alton Brooks Parker served as Chief Judge of the New York Court of Appeals from 1898-1904. In 1904, he lost the Presidential election to Theodore Roosevelt in a landslide.
