3 Quotes & Sayings By Al Smith

Al Smith was the first Catholic to be nominated for president by a major political party. He was elected governor of New York in 1928 and 1929, and was the Democratic nominee for president in 1928, as well as in 1932 and 1936. He also served as a United States Senator from New York from 1929 to 1931. In 1930, his candidacy for the presidency generated an outpouring of support from across the country Read more

However, he lost to Herbert Hoover in a landslide that ensured that Hoover would remain in office for a record four years.

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No sane local official who has hung up an empty stocking over the municipal fireplace, is going to shoot Santa Claus just before a hard Christmas. Al Smith
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It is the right of our people to organize to oppose any law and any part of the Constitution with which they are not in sympathy. Al Smith