Alton b parker biography of williams

Associate Justice:
Born: May 14,
Died: May 10,

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 b parker biography of williams

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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 convent