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    <title>Alton B. Parker papers, 1878-1937 (bulk 1904-1926)</title>
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    <namePart>Parker, Alton B. (Alton Brooks)</namePart>
    <namePart type="date">1852-1926</namePart>
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  <language>
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    <extent>7,000</extent>
    <extent>35</extent>
    <extent>14</extent>
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  <abstract>Correspondence, speeches, legal opinions, autobiographical and biographical studies, financial records, printed matter, scrapbooks, photographs, and other papers primarily concerning the presidential election of 1904 in which Parker ran as the candidate of the Democratic Party and his work with legal, civic, and philanthropic organizations.  Organizations include the Albany Law School, American Bar Association, American Committee for Armenian Independence, Charity Organization Society of the City of New York's Committee on Criminal Courts, English Speaking Union of the United States, Lawyers' Club (New York, N.Y.), National Civic Federation, National Council of Religion in Higher Education, New York State Bar Association, Sulgrave Institution of the United States and of the British Commonwealth, and the Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation, Inc.  Correspondents include Josephus Daniels, Ralph M. Easley, Rufus Wheeler Peckham, and William H. Taft.</abstract>
  <note>Open to research.</note>
  <note>Lawyer, judge, and Democratic presidential candidate.</note>
  <note>Collection material in English.</note>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Daniels, Josephus</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1862-1948</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Easley, Ralph M. (Ralph Montgomery)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1858-</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Peckham, Rufus Wheeler</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1838-1909</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Taft, William H. (William Howard)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1857-1930</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="corporate">
      <namePart>Albany Law School.</namePart>
    </name>
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    <name type="corporate">
      <namePart>American Committee for Armenian Independence.</namePart>
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    <name type="corporate">
      <namePart>American Bar Association.</namePart>
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    <name type="corporate">
      <namePart>Charity Organization Society of the City of New York.</namePart>
      <namePart>Committee on Criminal Courts.</namePart>
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    <name type="corporate">
      <namePart>Democratic Party (U.S.)</namePart>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="corporate">
      <namePart>English-Speaking Union of the United States.</namePart>
    </name>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="corporate">
      <namePart>Lawyers' Club (New York, N.Y.)</namePart>
    </name>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="corporate">
      <namePart>National Civic Federation.</namePart>
    </name>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="corporate">
      <namePart>National Council of Religion in Higher  Education.</namePart>
    </name>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="corporate">
      <namePart>New York State Bar Association.</namePart>
    </name>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="corporate">
      <namePart>Sulgrave Institution of the United States and of the British Commonwealth.</namePart>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="corporate">
      <namePart>Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation, Inc.</namePart>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Charities</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Civic improvement</topic>
    <topic>Societies, etc</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Elections</topic>
    <geographic>United States</geographic>
    <temporal>1904</temporal>
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    <topic>Law</topic>
    <topic>Societies, etc</topic>
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    <topic>Presidents</topic>
    <geographic>United States</geographic>
    <topic>Election</topic>
    <temporal>1904</temporal>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>United States</geographic>
    <topic>Politics and government</topic>
    <temporal>1901-1909</temporal>
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    <occupation>Jurists</occupation>
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  <subject authority="itoamc">
    <occupation>Lawyers</occupation>
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