Governor Al Smith was a four-term governor of the state of New York and Democratic candidate for president in 1928.

GRAND FORKS — Less than four years before he was awarded the Democratic presidential nomination instead of Al Smith, Franklin D. Roosevelt wrote a letter to a fellow political insider in Grand Forks ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. Governor Al Smith of New York was the ...

Almost a century ago, in 1927, The Atlantic published “An Open Letter to the Honorable Alfred E. Smith,” written by a Protestant lawyer, Charles Marshall. As with most of the nation’s venerable ...