Alson Jenness Streeter of New Windsor

Windsor, Mercer County, Illinois

Windsor, also known as New Windsor, is a village in Rivoli Township, Mercer County, Illinois, United States. The population was 720 at the 2000 census. The official name is the Village of Windsor, but New Windsor is also used by the village such as the New Windsor Fire Department...

, Illinois

Illinois

Illinois is the fifth-most populous state of the United States of America, and is often noted for being a microcosm of the entire country. With Chicago in the northeast, small industrial cities and great agricultural productivity in central and northern Illinois, and natural resources like coal,...

, was the Union Labor Party nominee in the United States presidential election

United States presidential election

Elections for President and Vice President of the United States are indirect elections in which voters cast ballots for a slate of electors of the U.S. Electoral College, who in turn directly elect the President and Vice President...

 of 1888

United States presidential election, 1888

The 1888 election for President of the United States saw Grover Cleveland of New York, the incumbent president and a Democrat, try to secure a second term against the Republican nominee Benjamin Harrison, a former U.S. Senator from Indiana...

. With vice presidential running mate Charles E. Cunningham of Arkansas

Arkansas

Arkansas is a state located in the southern region of the United States. Its name is an Algonquian name of the Quapaw Indians. Arkansas shares borders with six states , and its eastern border is largely defined by the Mississippi River...

, the Union Labor ticket finished fourth in the election, garnering 149,115 votes or 1.31 percent of the nationwide total. He died on November 24, 1901 and was interred in New Windsor Cemetery.