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Presidential candidate Party Home state Popular vote Electoral vote Running mate Count Percentage Vice-presidential candidate Home state Electoral vote Theodore Roosevelt (incumbent) Republican: New York: 7,630,457 56.42% 336 Charles W. Fairbanks: Indiana: 336 Alton B. Parker: Democratic: New York 5,083,880 37.59% 140 Henry Gassaway Davis: West ...
In the presidential election, Republican President Theodore Roosevelt defeated Democratic judge Alton Parker from New York. [3] Parker, a conservative Bourbon Democrat , won the Democratic nomination on the first ballot, as former President Grover Cleveland and former presidential nominee William Jennings Bryan both declined to run.
This article is a list of United States presidential candidates. The first U.S. presidential election was held in 1788–1789, followed by the second in 1792. Presidential elections have been held every four years thereafter. Presidential candidates win the election by winning a majority of the electoral vote.
Pages in category "Candidates in the 1904 United States presidential election" The following 17 pages are in this category, out of 17 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
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The Democrats eventually united around Alton Parker, the Chief Judge of the New York Court of Appeals, as their 1904 presidential nominee. [3] Parker had been the campaign manager for New York Governor David B. Hill in 1885 and acquired a reputation for fairness, competence, and courtesy as a judge . [ 3 ]
1904 United States vice-presidential candidates (7 P) Pages in category "1904 United States presidential election" The following 5 pages are in this category, out of 5 total.
In Irving Stone's 1943 book, They Also Ran, about defeated presidential candidates, the author stated that Parker was the only defeated presidential candidate in history never to have a biography written about him. Stone theorized that Parker would have been an effective president and the 1904 election was one of a few in American history in ...