"The Life of Judge Alton Brooks Parker, Ulster County's only Candidate for President of the USA"

John Wadlin tells the story of Ulster County New York's Judge Alton B. Parker. Parker was the unsuccessful Democratic candidate for President, loosing in a landslide to Teddy Roosevelt in 1904. He defeated William Randolph Hearst in the primary but only carried the southern states in the general election. He practiced law in Kingston NY and was a judge on NYS Supreme Court and Chief Judge of the Court of Appeals.