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See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Sulzer#Impeachment "On August 13, 1913, the New York Assembly voted to impeach Governor Sulzer, by a vote of 79 to 45. Sulzer was served with a summons to appear before the Court for the Trial of Impeachments, and Lieutenant Governor Martin H. Glynn was empowered to act in his place pending the outcome of the trial. However, Sulzer maintained that the proceedings against him were unconstitutional and refused to vacate his office.[2] Both Sulzer and Glynn claimed to be Governor. Lt.Gov. Glynn began signing documents as "Acting Governor" beginning on August 21.[3] The trial of Governor William Sulzer before the Impeachment Court began in in Albany on September 18. The court convicted Sulzer on three of the Articles of Impeachment on the afternoon of October 16, finding him guilty of filing a false report with the Secretary of State concerning his campaign contributions, committing perjury, and advising another person to commit perjury before an Assembly committee[4]. The following day, the court voted on a resolution to remove Sulzer from office. On October 17, 1913, Sulzer was removed by the same margin, a vote of 43-12, and Lt. Gov. Glynn succeeded to the governorship.[5]" The date on the negative suggests that this is the vote in the NY legislature to impeach rather than the impeachment trial.

swanq: Thanks for noticing the date on the neg. and for the additional information here!

Alton Parker lost to Teddy Roosevelt in the 1904 presidential elections.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alton_B._Parker

Interesting historic theme.Greetings.

Lovely photo, my friend....Happy Weekend

Alton B. Parker had been a former chief judge of the New York State Court of Appeals, an office he left in 1904, when he ran for the presidency, as the Democratic Party nominee. In 1913, when this photo was taken (on the steps of the NY State Capitol, in Albany), Parker was counsel for the prosecution in the impeachment trial of NY Governor William Sulzer.

William Sulzer was the Governor of New York. The only governor from that state to be impeached & removed from office. He kinda looks like Lon Chaney in "The Phantom of the Opera" in this picture: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Sulzer Philander C. Knox was Secretary of State under Teddy Roosevelt: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philander_C._Knox

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Thanks captainslack for filling in the identity of these two men. Any idea when the photograph was taken?

The building behind them is the State, War and Navy building -- nowadays called the Executive Office Building, next to the White House. But of course, folks at the LOC know that already . . . .

Captainslack is incorrect about Knox: he was Secretary of State under Taft (1909-1913), not Roosevelt. Sulzer was Governor of New York for only a part of the year 1913, but he was in Congress for several years before that. This picture could have been taken while he was in Washington as a Congress Person.