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'''Al Smith''' was the dominant [[Democrat]]ic politician in [[New York State]] and was elected [[governor]] in 1918. <ref>http://www.nps.gov/archive/elro/glossary/smith-al.html</ref>
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'''Al Smith''' was the dominant [[Democrat]]ic politician in [[New York State]] and was elected [[governor]] in 1918.  He was the Democratic Party's candidate for president in 1928 &ndash; the first [[Catholic]] to win a major-party presidential nomination &ndash; but lost the election to [[Herbert Hoover]].<ref>http://www.nps.gov/archive/elro/glossary/smith-al.html</ref>
    
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