Al Smith

Examples of Al Smith in the following topics:

• Al Smith and the Election of 1928

  • Democrat Al Smith, the first Roman Catholic presidential nominee, lost the 1928 election in a landslide to Republican Herbert Hoover.
  • Alfred Emanuel "Al" Smith was the Democratic Party’s candidate for president in the election of 1928.
  • In all, Smith carried only six of the 11 states of the former Confederacy.
  • Republican Herbert Hoover defeated Al Smith in the election of 1928 to become the 31st President of the United States.
  • Democrat Al Smith came from humble beginnings in New York City and rose through the political ranks to become a four-time governor of New York state.

• The Retreat from Progressivism

  • ., Charles Evans Hughes, and Herbert Hoover on the Republican side, and William Jennings Bryan, Woodrow Wilson and Al Smith on the Democratic side .

• Domestic Conservatism

  • Davis (1924) and Al Smith (1928), who mobilized businessmen into the American Liberty League.

• The Election of 1904

  • Parker carried only 1,107 counties, a smaller number than any Democratic candidate in the Fourth Party System had carried except Al Smith in 1928.

• The Election of 1924

  • His nomination was considered a compromise following a battle between the front runners, former Secretary of the Treasury William Gibbs McAdoo of California and New York Governor Al Smith.

• The Progressive Era

  • ., and Charles Evans Hughes on the Republican side, and William Jennings Bryan, Woodrow Wilson, and Al Smith on the Democratic side.

• The Mormons

  • To Smith, this meant restoring male leadership.
  • Smith emphasized the importance of families being ruled by fathers.
  • Smith’s new church placed great emphasis on work and discipline.
  • Smith’s claims of translating the golden plates antagonized his neighbors in New York.
  • Joseph Smith, Jr., founder of the Latter Day Saint movement, which gave rise to Mormonism.

• Classical Liberalism

  • Classical liberalism developed over the course of the 1800s in the United States and Britain and drew upon Enlightenment sources (particularly the works of John Locke, Thomas Hobbes, and Adam Smith).
  • Classical liberals agreed with Adam Smith that government had only three essential functions: protection against foreign invaders, protection of citizens from wrongs committed against them by other citizens, and the building and maintaining of public institutions and public works that the private sector could not profitably provide.
  • Adam Smith was a Scottish moral philosopher, pioneer of political economy, and a key figure in the Scottish Enlightenment.

• The Rights of Englishmen

  • Adam Smith, a Scottish political economist, extended on some of Locke's arguments by theorizing a relationship between government and trade.
  • In "The Wealth of Nations", Smith argued that, rather than directing and controlling a nation's economy, the best kind of governments encouraged the development of free markets--in which trade with other nations was unfettered by mercantile policies.
  • According to Smith, government should be limited to defense, public works, and the administration of justice, financed by taxes based on income.
  • Essentially, Smith envisioned the government's role in the economy as a minimized (even nonexistent) presence, with the "invisible hand" of supply and demand determining economic policy.
  • Smith saw self-interest, rather than altruism, as the motivation for the production of goods and services.

• The Mormon Exodus

  • The journey was taken by about 70,000 people beginning with advanced parties sent out by church fathers in March 1846 after the assassination of Mormon founder Joseph Smith made it clear the faith could not remain in Nauvoo, Illinois—which the church had recently purchased, improved, renamed and developed because of the Missouri Mormon War setting off the Illinois Mormon War.
  • As a result of the conflict the Mormons were expelled from the state by Governor Boggs, and Rigdon and Smith were arrested and imprisoned in Liberty Jail.
  • In 1844 Joseph Smith and his brother Hyrum Smith were killed by a mob while in custody in the city of Carthage, Illinois.
  • The Mormon exodus began in 1846 when, in the face of these conflicts, Brigham Young (Joseph Smith's successor as President of the Church) decided to abandon Nauvoo and to establish a new home for the church in the Great Basin .