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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 ...
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 ...
9. Apr. 2024 · Al Smith (born December 30, 1873, New York, New York, U.S.—died October 4, 1944, New York City) was a U.S. politician, four-time Democratic governor of New York and the first Roman Catholic to run for the U.S. presidency (1928). When his father died, young Smith interrupted his schooling and went to work for seven years at the Fulton fish ...
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 born on Dec. 30, 1873, in a tenement on New York City's Lower East Side. He attended St. James's Parochial School until, at the age of 15, he began supporting his widowed mother and sister by working in a fish market. Like other ambitious Irish-Catholic youths of the day, Smith gravitated toward the Tammany Hall political organization, working initially as a subpoena server ...
11. Mai 2016 · It took 103 ballots of the delegates before the deadlock between William Gibbs McAdoo and Alfred E. Smith was broken. McAdoo, the son-in-law of the last Democratic President, Woodrow Wilson, was the candidate of rural America: Protestant, prohibitionist, anti-machine politics. Smith was Catholic, anti-prohibition, pro-labor, pro-immigrant, and ...
28. Feb. 2024 · Smith first served as an investigator in the office of the Commissioner of Jurors and later served in the New York State Assembly from 1904-1915. Smith served as vice-chairmen of the state commission appointed to investigate the 1911 Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire. After seeing the dangerous and unhealthy workplace conditions at New York City ...
