Alfred Emanuel Smith was an American politician who was elected Governor of New York four times and was the Democratic U.S presidential candidate in 1928.
Smith was the foremost urban leader of the Efficiency Movement in the United States and was noted for achieving a wide range of reforms as governor in the 1920’s. The son of an Irish-American mother and a Civil War veteran father, he was raised in the Lower East Side of Manhattan near the Brooklyn Bridge, where he resided for his entire life.
Like many other New York politicians of his era, he was also linked to the notorious Tammany Hall political machine that controlled New York City’s politics, although he remained personally untarnished by corruption.
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