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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 de mayo de 1852-Nueva York, 10 de mayo de 1926) fue un juez estadounidense. Representando al Partido Demócrata perdió las elecciones presidenciales de 1904 ante el republicano Theodore Roosevelt.
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.
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.
Alton Brooks Parker (Cortland, 14 de mayo de 1852-Nueva York, 10 de mayo de 1926) fue un juez estadounidense. Representando al Partido Demócrata perdió las elecciones presidenciales de 1904 ante el republicano Theodore Roosevelt.
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.)
