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The Revolution of '28explores the career of New York governor and 1928 Democratic presidential nominee Alfred E. Smith. Robert Chiles peers into Smith'...
Alfred Emanuel “Al” Smith was an American politician who served as the Governor of New York for four times and became the first ever Catholic nominee for President. He was a very popular Governor and is credited to have brought about a wide range of reforms during the 1920s. He was a strong opponent of Prohibition and found loyal supporters in the citizens who themselves were against ...
Alfred E. Smith. Alfred Emmanuel Smith was born on Manhattan ’s teeming Lower East Side. He was of primarily Irish descent. Alfred was forced to quit parochial school after his father's death and worked for a while at the famous Fulton Fish Market. Alfred Smith began his long political career in 1894, when he supported an anti- Tammany Hall ...
United States presidential election of 1928, American presidential election held on November 6, 1928, in which Republican Herbert Hoover defeated Democrat Alfred E. Smith in the electoral college 444–87. Republican incumbent Calvin Coolidge unexpectedly announced in August 1927 that he would not
1. Sept. 2003 · Smith won four terms as governor of New York, earning a national reputation for modernizing state government and promoting humane reform. In 1928, Smith became the first Catholic nominated by a major party for president, losing to Herbert Hoover in a campaign marked by scholarly and scurrilous attacks on his religion. Ironically, after his Democratic party regained power in 1932 Smith rejected ...
Alfred E. Smith was the dominant Democratic politician in New York State during the years when FDR and ER emerged as political leaders. Although Smith grew up in relative comfort on the Lower East Side, he quit school and began work at the age of fourteen, after his father's death. In his political career, he emphasized his lowly beginnings ...
Alfred Emanuel Smith, four times Governor of this State, who rose from the sidewalks of New York to eminence in public life and in the hearts of many Americans, died early today at the age of 70 in Rockefeller Institute Hospital. The end came at 6:28 A.M., after a sinking spell which began when the former Governor's pulse weakened at about 2 o ...
