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Apr 18, 2019 · Al Smith – The Happy Warrior. April 18, 2019. 0. 1188. In 1928, the Democrats nominated Al Smith of New York for President. Al Smith was the son of Irish immigrants and a self-made man. Al’s first job came when he was eleven years old selling newspapers.
Roman Catholicism. Alfred Emanuel "Al" Smith (December 30, 1873 – October 4, 1944) was elected Governor of New York four times, and was the Democratic U.S. presidential candidate in 1928. He was the first Roman Catholic and Irish-American to run for President as a major party nominee.
Oct 17, 2019 · Running for president in 1928, Al Smith argued it was possible to be both a good Catholic and a faithful servant of the American people, writes Terry Golway. Even in losing, he changed U.S....
“I Will Not Be Influenced in Appointments”: Al Smith Accepts the Nomination for President. Religion figured prominently in the 1928 presidential election when Alfred E. Smith, the Democratic governor of New York, became the first Catholic to run as the candidate of a major political party.
Al Smith, the Governor of New York, was considered for the Democratic nomination in 1924 and won the nomination in 1928. Smith and his candidacy became a focal point for the turmoil surrounding the issues of immigration, religion, and Prohibition. Smith was urban, Irish, Catholic, and Wet.
May 1, 2023 · May 1, 2023 by Chris Kretz Leave a Comment. Al Smith was many things during his political career: reform champion after the Triangle Shirtwaist fire, four-time governor of New York State, the first Catholic presidential candidate. But he was always a New York City boy at heart.
explores the career of New York governor and 1928 Democratic presidential nominee Alfred E. Smith. Robert Chiles peers into Smith's work and uncovers a distinctive strain of American progressivism that resonated among urban, ethnic, working-class Americans in the early twentieth century.
