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- Birth nameAlfred Emanuel Smith
- Height5′ 10″ (1.78 m)
- Legendary New York Democratic politician whose life began on the low end as a fish market worker and climaxed as a Presidential candidate. He was first elected to the New York State Assembly in 1903, becoming its Speaker in 1913. For a time, he was sheriff of New York County (1915-17) and president of the Board of Aldermen of New York (1917). He was elected four times as the state's governor, serving in 1919-1920 and 1923-1928). In 1928, he was the first serious Roman Catholic candidate for the Presidency, and received the active support of Franklin D. Roosevelt, but was defeated by the Republican candidate, Herbert Hoover. Four years later, he gave his support to Roosevelt's successful campaign, but in 1936 and 1940, supported the Republican candidate instead.
- IMDb mini biography by: Anonymous - Al Smith is an American politician who served four terms as Governor of New York and was the Democratic Party's candidate for President in 1928.
Smith was the foremost urban leader of the Efficiency Movement in the United States and was noted for achieving a wide range of reforms as governor in the 1920s. The son of an Irish-American mother and a Civil War veteran father, he was raised in the Lower East Side of Manhattan near the Brooklyn Bridge, where he resided for his entire life.
- IMDb mini biography by: Bazza the Beast
- SpouseCatherine Ann Dunn(May 6, 1900 - May 4, 1944) (her death, 5 children)
- RelativesArthur Francis Smith(Grandchild)
- First Roman-Catholic Governor in the United States
- First Roman-Catholic Candidate for U.S. President nominated by a major party.
- Governor of New York (1919-1921, 1923-1929).
- Pictured on a 3¢ US postage stamp issued 26 November 1945, less than a year after his death.
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