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4 unusual facts about Alton B. Parker


Bill Tilghman

A Democrat, Tilghman had been a delegate to his party's 1904 convention, which met in St. Louis, Missouri, to nominate New York Judge Alton B. Parker, a former law partner of U.S. President Grover Cleveland, to run against the successful Republican incumbent, Theodore Roosevelt.

Edgar M. Cullen

After the resignation of Alton B. Parker, Cullen was appointed in September 1904 by Governor Benjamin Barker Odell, Jr. Chief Judge of the Court of Appeals.

Elliott Danforth

From 1896 to 1898, he was Chairman of the New York State Democratic Committee, and in 1897 campaigned successfully for the election of Alton B. Parker as Chief Judge of the New York Court of Appeals.

Peace Ship

Also critical of Ford’s endeavor were former United States Senator Chauncey M. Depew and one- time presidential candidate Alton B. Parker.


Abraham X. Parker

Parker was elected as a Republican to the 47th and to the three succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1881-March 3, 1889).

Amasa J. Parker

Parker was elected as a Democrat to the 25th United States Congress, serving from March 4, 1837, to March 3, 1839, as the representative from Delaware and Broome counties.

Amasa Parker

Amasa J. Parker, Jr. a state senator from New York and a general in the National Guard of New York (and the son of Amasa J. Parker).

Battle of Kororareka

The American sloop USS St. Louis, under Commodore Foxhall A. Parker, was also present and her crew assisted in evacuating the British citizens.

Ben Parker

Ben L. Parker (1913–2003), former Democratic member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives

Benoist Simmat

In 2010 he wrote a bande dessinée comic book illustrated by Philippe Bercovici, satirising the American wine critic Robert M. Parker, Jr., titled Robert Parker: Les Sept Pêchés capiteux.

C. J. Parker

For example: in the Baywatch: Hawaiian Wedding reunion movie, C.J. reveals her biggest interest is in meditation.

Châteauneuf-du-Pape

Before wine critic Robert M. Parker, Jr. began promoting them, the wines of Châteauneuf were considered rustic and of limited appeal.

Conan the Hero

Nonetheless, he considers that "Conan the Hero shows Carpenter’s strengths in writing action and detail," noting that "the friendship between Conan and Juma comes across as realistic, unlike certain contrived 'interracial-buddy' movies. ... Their ambience is similar to that between the late Robert B. Parker’s Spenser and Hawk, minus the racial bantering."

Demala diviyan keliya

It is unknown how old the game is, but the game was described by H. Parker in his 1909 book Ancient Ceylon - An Account of the Aborigines and of Part of the Early Civilisation.

Denis Saverot

Saverot has also written the foreword to the bande dessinée comic book written by Simmat and illustrated by Philippe Bercovici, satirising the American wine critic Robert M. Parker, Jr., titled Robert Parker: Les Sept Pêchés capiteux.

Donn B. Parker

He is a grantee of the National Science Foundation, and the US Department of Justice, and is the founder in 1986 (while at SRI International) of the International Information Integrity Institute (I-4) an ongoing confidential service to large, international corporations and governments now owned and operated by KPMG-UK.

Frank W. Parker

The paper's editor and publisher, Carl Magee, was subsequently tried and convicted of criminal libel.

Giverny

In December 1910, six of the Giverny artists (Frieseke, Miller, Lawton S. Parker, Guy Rose, Edmund Greacen and Karl Anderson) were given a show at the Madison Gallery in New York which termed them "The Giverny Group."

Gordon R. Parker

Gordon R. Parker is a business executive notable for leading the Gold Fields unit of Toronto-based Iamgold corporation.

Harry Simpson

The character Luther "Suitcase" Simpson in the Jesse Stone novels, and made for TV movies, by author Robert B. Parker, is given the nickname "Suitcase" or "Suit", by the character of the police chief played by Tom Selleck because of Harry Simpson.

Henry L. Fuqua

Fuqua defeated both Huey Pierce Long, Jr., and Lieutenant Governor (and former Speaker of the Louisiana House of Representatives) Hewitt Leonidas Bouanchaud in the Democratic gubernatorial primary in 1924 to succeed the term-limited John M. Parker.

Herbert Hoover Supreme Court candidates

Additionally, with his failed nomination of John J. Parker, Hoover became the first president since Grover Cleveland to have a Supreme Court nomination rejected by the United States Senate.

History of Oregon wine

In 1984, noted wine critic Robert M. Parker, Jr. visited Oregon and was highly impressed with the Pinots he encountered.

Homer C. Parker

Parker was elected as a Democrat to the Seventy-second Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of United States Representative Charles G. Edwards.

Jeffrey A. Parker

After graduation, Parker worked in management in the consumer packaged goods industry for General Foods Corporation, Schering-Plough, and Con-Agra.

John M. Parker

Roosevelt selected Parker as one of eighteen officers (others included: Seth Bullock, Frederick Russell Burnham, and James Rudolph Garfield) to raise a volunteer infantry division, Roosevelt's World War I volunteers, for service in France in 1917.

The Democrats Woodrow Wilson and Thomas Marshall were nevertheless reelected to the presidency and vice presidency.

Julia Parker

Julia F. Parker (born 1928), Pomo-Miwok basket weaver from California

Life on the Mississippi

In 2010, Life on the Mississippi was adapted as a stage musical, with book and lyrics by Douglas M. Parker and music by Denver Casado.

Lindeman's

Five consecutive vintages have been named "best buys" by The Wine Spectator, a consumer magazine, and Robert M. Parker, Jr. has called it "one of the three or four finest chardonnay values in the world" in his newsletter The Wine Advocate.

Louis N. Parker

He was born in Calvados, France, the son of the American Charles Albert Parker, who was a grandson of American congressman and judge Isaac Parker, and the Englishwoman Elizabeth Moray.

Maurice Parker

Maurice W. Parker, Sr. (1873–1958), voice coach, marksman, billiard champion, and violin maker

Maurice S. Parker

Prior to his posting in Mbabane, he was Director of the Office of Employee Relations and Foreign Service Assignments in the Bureau of Human Resources.

Parkerian Hexad

The Parkerian hexad is a set of six elements of information security proposed by Donn B. Parker in 1998.

Richard E. Parker

He died on his estate, ‘Soldier’s Retreat,’ near Snickersville (now Bluemont, Loudoun County), Virginia, September 10, 1840, and was buried in the family cemetery near Warsaw, Richmond County, Virginia.

Rick Klassen

In 1984, however, when Matthews, former Edmonton defensive co-ordinator, traded for James "Quick" Parker from the Eskimos, Klassen again switched positions.

Robert A. Parker

From March 1988 to March 1989, Parker was stationed at NASA Headquarters in Washington, D.C. where he served as director of the Space Flight/Space Station Integration Office.

Robert Bogardus

His daughter Sarah Jay Bogardus (b. 1794) married Foxhall A. Parker (1788–1857), and their children were Foxhall A. Parker (1821–1879) and William Harwar Parker (1826–1896).

Samuel Parker

Samuel I. Parker (1891–1975), United States Army officer and Medal of Honor recipient

Seth Bullock

Roosevelt also selected Bullock as one of 18 officers (others included Frederick Russell Burnham, James R. Garfield, and John M. Parker) to raise a volunteer infantry division, Roosevelt's World War I volunteers, for service in France in 1917.

Shane A. Parker

He also named the extinct Kangaroo Island Emu (Dromaius baudinianus) in 1984 on the basis of subfossil bones.

Snaphance

In K. J. Parker's novel The Hammer which takes place in a fictional universe, the pistols are referred to explicitly as "snapping-hens".

Society of American Indians

One of the most important members of the Society, Seneca tribe historian Arthur C. Parker, urged Native Americans "to strike out into duties of modern life and find every right that had escaped them before." While some members supported strengthening tribal values, most favored complete assimilation.

The Writer

The Writer's current editorial board consists of James Applewhite, Andre Becker, T. Alan Broughton, Eve Bunting, Mary Higgins Clark, Roy Peter Clark, Barnaby Conrad, Lewis Burke Frumkes, James Cross Giblin, Gail Godwin, Eileen Goudge, Rachel Hadas, Shelby Hearon, John Jakes, John Koethe, Lois Lowry, Peter Meinke, Robert B. Parker, Katherine Patterson, Elizabeth Peters, Arthur Plotnik, and William G. Tapply.

United States presidential election in New York, 1904

Roosevelt and Fairbanks defeated the Democratic nominees, Chief Judge of the New York Court of Appeals Alton B. Parker of New York and his running mate Senator Henry G. Davis of West Virginia.


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