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15. Aug. 2020 · Historians Beverly Gage and John Evers talked about the life and career of 1928 Democratic presidential nominee Alfred E. Smith, Jr. (1873-1944). Nicknamed the "Happy Warrior," Al Smith never went ...
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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 ...
17. Mai 2024 · Alfred Smith (1873-1944) The quintessential New York native, Alfred E. Smith had a long, noteworthy career in politics that began in a gritty ethnic neighborhood on Manhattan's Lower East Side. Born in 1873 to working class Anglo-Irish parents and educated in a neighborhood parochial school, Smith soon displayed an enthusiasm for politics.
24. Dez. 2008 · About this group. Looking for anyone who grew up or knows someone who grew up in the Alfred E Smith Houses. Private. Only members can see who's in the group and what they post. Visible. Anyone can find this group. History. Group created on December 24, 2008. See more.
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 ...
Charles E. Hughes, who had been Governor of New York State and who was afterwards to be Secretary of State of the United States, declared , that the Convention was particularly indebted to two men Elihu Root, who was the chairman of the Convention, and Alfred E. Smith. He summed it up in the expression: "Root planted the crop, and Smith watered ...
