ALTON B. PARKER (D)

1904

Winner:  THEODORE ROOSEVELT (R)



ALTON B. PARKER (1852–):  Lawyer and jurist; Surrogate Ulster County, 1877-85; Justice Supreme Court, 1885-97, serving from 1889 to 1893 as Associate Judge Court of Appeals, Second Division; Chief Judge Court of Appeals, 1897-1904, when he resigned to accept the nomination of the Democratic Party as its candidate for President of the United States; President of American Bar Association, 1906.


Originally published in Legal and Judicial History of New York, by Alden Chester, Lyman Horace Weeks, John Hampden Dougherty, published 1911 by National Americana Society.


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