Alfred E. Smith
At a glance:
- Series: Dictionary of World Biography: Twentieth Century
- Categories: Government and Politics, Social Issues, Reform, and Protest
- Subcategories: Presidents, Prime Ministers
- Curriculum: American History 1901-1950, American History 1878-1900
Article abstract: Smith was a leading figure in the Democratic Party during the Progressive Era and the 1920’s. He represented the urban, immigrant Roman Catholic, and relatively liberal interests of the party at a time when it was deeply divided along regional, cultural, and ideological lines.
Early Life
Alfred Emanuel Smith was born the first of two children to a poor but not impoverished Irish-American family on the Lower East Side of New York City, in 1873. His sister Mary was born two years later. Smith’s father, also named Alfred Emanuel Smith,...
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