Robert Ferdinand Wagner I was an American attorney and Democratic Party politician who represented the state of New York in the United States Senate from 1927 to 1949.
Harris & Ewing photo, Library of Congress
President Roosevelt signs the Social Security Act into law, August 14, 1935. (Wagner second from left)
Federal Housing Administrator Stewart McDonald (right) discussing with Senator Robert F. Wagner, author of The Wagner Housing Act
Alfred Emanuel Smith was an American politician who served four terms as the 42nd governor of New York and was the Democratic Party's presidential nominee in 1928.
Smith c. 1920s
Al Smith attended St. James school through the eighth grade, his only formal education.
Charles F. Murphy and Smith in 1915
Smith at his desk in the New York Assembly in 1913