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1 day ago · He won the Republican nomination in the 1928 presidential election and defeated Democratic candidate Al Smith in a landslide. In 1929, Hoover assumed the presidency. However, during his first year in office, the stock market crashed, signaling the onset of the Great Depression, which dominated Hoover's presidency until its end.
4 days ago · The longest convention in US history, with 103 ballots to nominate John W. Davis as the presidential candidate. Learn about the primaries, the Klan controversy, Roosevelt's comeback, and the results of the 1924 election.
5 days ago · In the meantime, prohibition and religion were the major issues of the 1928 presidential campaign between the Republican nominee, Herbert Hoover, and the Democrat, Gov. Alfred E. Smith of New York. Smith was an opponent of prohibition and a Roman Catholic.
5 days ago · Religious tensions were major issues in the presidential election of 1928 when the Democrats nominated Al Smith, a Catholic who was defeated, and in 1960 when the Democrats also nominated John F. Kennedy, a Catholic who was elected.
2 days ago · As he put it in a campaign speech in 1928, the country had “come nearer to the abolition of poverty, to the abolition of fear of want, than humanity has ever reached before” (Speech on the “Principles and Ideals of the United States Government” (1928)).
5 days ago · Smith was nominated by Democrats to become president in 1928 and lost in spectacular fashion to Herbert Hoover. Hoover garnered 444 Electoral College votes by winning 40 states to Smith’s...
5 days ago · Government & Politics. What experts say Harris' decision to skip Al Smith Dinner reveals about Catholic vote. (RNS) — Since 1984, three of nine Al Smith Dinners in presidential election...
