Alton B. Parker: The Man Who Challenged Roosevelt
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 —at the height of Roosevelt’s popularity—and was a transition point between the conservative and the new, progressive wing of the Democratic Party. Based on new archival research, this book contributes to our understanding of how political campaigns were conducted during the Gilded Age/Progressive Era, in comparison to modern campaigns. It also provides insights into the changing Democratic Party as it transformed from the presidency of Grover Cleveland to the presidencies of Woodrow Wilson and Franklin D. Roosevelt.
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Alton B. Parker
Alton Brooks Parker served as Chief Judge of the New York Court of Appeals from In , he lost the Presidential election to Theodore Roosevelt in a landslide.
Alton B. Parker was born in on a farm in Cortland, New York. He earned a degree from the Albany Law School in and opened a successful law practice with a fellow student. Parker later became involved with the Democratic party, supporting Grover Cleveland&#;s candidacy for Governor and later President.
In , Parker managed David B. Hill&#;s successful campaign to become Governor of New York. With Hill’s support, Parker rose to prominence in the New York court system. In , he was elected chief justice of the New York Court of Appeals, the state&#;s highest court, by an overwhelming margin. During his tenure, Parker was known as a progressive, authoring the opinion upholding New York’s maximum-hours labor law that would later be struck down by the U.S. Supreme Court.
In , Parker’s name was floated as potential Presidential candidate. Judge Parker was a reluctant nominee, previously declining prior offers to run for U.S. Senate and New York Governor in favor of remaining on the bench. Prior to the Democ
Only one Court of Appeals Judge has ever run for President of the United States. He lost in a landslide.
Alton B. Parker was born May 14, , on a modest farm just outside Cortland, New York. His father, John Brooks Parker, had also been born on the farm, which had been first purchased by his grandfather, the son of a Revolutionary War soldier. The grandfather, an educated man, had turned to farming when his health began to fail, and though he had prospered moderately as a farmer, his own son was less successful, barely earning enough to support his family. John Parker&#;s true passion was books, and he passed on to his son a lifelong love of learning and knowledge.
Alton Parker&#;s mother, Harriet F. Stratton, was a devout and intelligent woman who, like her husband, valued the life of the mind. Even before Parker could read, his mother had taught him Bible verses as he sat in his highchair while she sewed. Later, she required the boy to learn seven Bible verses each week to repeat in Sunday school. Parker&#;s formal education began at the local district school, which he often attended barefoot. As the only redhead in the county school near Cortland, he was forced to wage many
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Born: May 14,
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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, , p. )
Alton Brooks Parker was born on May 14, in Cortland, New York. He attended Cortland Academy and Cortland Normal School, where he trained as a teacher. He taught for a time in Binghamton. After teaching, he accepted a clerkship at the law offices of Schoonmaker & Hardenburgh in Kingston and then enrolled at Albany Law School, from which he graduated in Shortly thereafter, Parker went into partnership with a law school classmate, creating the firm of Parker & Kenyon, which lasted until
Parker became active in politics and was elected as Ulster County Surrogate in at the age of He was reelected six years later. Parker rose quickly in Democratic Party ranks. He was a delegate to the state convention in and was an early supporter of Grover Cleveland’s candidacy for governor. When Cleveland ran for President in , Parker was a delegate to the Democratic National Convention in Chicago.
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