Object Details
- Description
- Alton Parker was the 1904 Democratic nominee for president. His running mate, 80-year-old Henry Davis, is the oldest person to have ever been nominated for president or vice president by a major party. Parker lost in a landslide to incumbent president Theodore Roosevelt (running mate Charles Fairbanks) but finished ahead of Eugene V. Debs (running mate Benjamin Hanford) who ran as a Socialist, the first time that party appeared on the national ballot.
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
- date made
- 1904
- Object Name
- button
