Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 36, Number 75, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 May 1904 — JUDGE ALTON B. PARKER, [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

JUDGE ALTON B. PARKER,

Indorsed for the Presidential Nomination by New York-Democrats. Alton Brooks Parker, the New York candidate for the Democratic nomination for President, is one of the best known jurists of the Empire State, having occupied a high position on the bench since 1885, when he became a member of the State Supreme Court. He was born at Cortland, N. Y., in 1852 and was

educated in the public schools of his native town and in the Cortlatd academy and Cortland Normal school. From the normal school he went to the Albany law school, and after his admission to the bar practiced for several years at Kingston. He was surrogate of Ulster County from 1877 to 1885, when he became a justice of the Supreme Court. In 1889 he became a member of the Court of Appeals and since Jan. 1, 1898, has been chief judge of that court. Judge Parker has always been influential in the politics of his State. He was a delegate to the convention that nominated Grover Cleveland fqr President in 1884 and in the following year was tendered an appointment as First Assistant Postmaster General. In 1885 he was chosen chairman of the State Democratic executive committee.

JUDGE ALTON B. PARKER.