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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 – the first [[Catholic]] to win a major-party presidential nomination – but lost the election to [[Herbert Hoover]].<ref>http://www.nps.gov/archive/elro/glossary/smith-al.html</ref>
'''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 – the first [[Catholic]] to win a major-party presidential nomination – but lost the election to [[Herbert Hoover]].<ref>http://www.nps.gov/archive/elro/glossary/smith-al.html</ref>
Smith was a Porgressive in the 1920s, but also a pro-business conservative. He broke with [[Franklin D. roosevelt]] after 1928, and helped form the [[American Liberty League]] to rally conservative Democrats in opposition to the [[New Deal]] and in favor of [[Jeffersonian Democracy]].
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[[Category:New York Governors]]
[[Category:New York Governors]]
[[Category:Democrat Governors]]
[[Category:Democrat Governors]]
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