Legacy
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 which voters had two first-rate candidates to choose from. Stone professed that Americans liked Roosevelt more because of his colorful style.
Parker's birthplace, Cortland, New York, has a public elementary school named for him.
The New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation has a portrait of Judge Parker by the Swiss-born American artist Adolfo Muller-Ury (1862–1947) painted in 1904 and donated by Parker's wife in 1926 hanging at the Senate House State Historic Site at Kingston, New York. This was a reduced version of a three-quarter length portrait painted in Esopus at Parker's House and sent, as soon as it was completed, to the Hoffman House at Broadway and 25 Street in Manhattan, which was at that time the informal headquarters for the Democratic party (this is today unlocated).
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