Button, Alton Parker, 1904
date: label: date made
content: 1904
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content: 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 and Davis lost to incumbent president Theodore Roosevelt and his running mate Charles Fairbanks but finished ahead of Eugene V. Debs and Benjamin Hanford who ran as Socialists, the first time the Socialist Party appeared on the national ballot.
topic: label: used
content: Political Campaigns
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content: Government, Politics, and Reform
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content: American Democracy: A Great Leap of Faith
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content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2015.0200.165
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content: 2015.0200
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content: 2015.0200.165
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content: button