[Letter] 1904 October 24, New York [to Alton Brooks] Parker / Nathan Strauss.

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[Letter] 1904 October 24, New York [to Alton Brooks] Parker / Nathan Strauss.

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Typescript signed. A letter of advice to Alton Brooks Parker, a presidential candidate, on how to present himself to his constituency more effectively.

1 leaf ; 20 x 25 cm.

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Straus, Nathan, 1848-1931

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Nathan Straus (1848-1931) was a German-born New York City businessman and philanthropist. After making his fortune as a partner in the New York department stores Abraham and Straus and R.H. Macy and Co., Straus, with his wife Lina Gutherz Straus, turned to philanthropy. He advocated milk pasteurization to check the spread of tuberculosis, opening the Nathan Straus Pasteurized Milk Laboratory in New York in 1892; founded the Tuberculosis Preventorium for Children in New Jersey in 1909; supported ...

Parker, Alton B. (Alton Brooks), 1852-1926

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Alton Brooks Parker (May 14, 1852 – May 10, 1926) was an American judge, best known as the Democrat who lost the presidential election of 1904 to incumbent Theodore Roosevelt in a landslide. A native of upstate New York, Parker practiced law in Kingston, New York, before being appointed to the New York Supreme Court and elected to the New York Court of Appeals; he served as Chief Judge of the latter from 1898 to 1904, when he resigned to run for president. In 1904, he defeated liberal publish...