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Alfred Emanuel Smith was an American politician who served as the 42nd governor of New York from 1919 to 1920 and again from 1923 to 1928. A member of the Democratic Party, he was the party's presiden
Smith c. 1920s
Smith c. 1890s
Charles F. Murphy and Smith in 1915
Smith at his desk in the State Capitol, 1913
Presidential elections were held in the United States on November 6, 1928. In a landslide victory, the Republican ticket of Secretary of Commerce Herbert Hoover and Senator Charles Curtis defeated the
Al Smith
…governor of New York from 1919 to 1920 and again from 1923 to 1928. A member of the Democratic Party, he was the party's presidential nominee in the 1928 presidential election, losing to Republican nominee Herbert Hoover in a landslide. The son of an Irish American mother and a Civil War–veteran Italian American father, Smith…
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Unsuccessful 1928
Calvin Coolidge, the incumbent president in 1928, whose second and only full term expired on March 4, 1929
Herbert Hoover and Charles Curtis after winning the presidential and vice-presidential nominations