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Al Smith

1873 - 1944

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Alfred Emanuel Smith (December 30, 1873 – October 4, 1944) was the 42nd governor of New York, serving from 1919 to 1920 and again from 1923 to 1928. He was the Democratic Party's presidential nominee in the 1928 presidential election, losing to Herbert Hoover of the Republican Party. The son of an Irish-American mother and a Civil War–veteran Italian-American father, true surname Ferraro, Smith was raised on the Lower East Side of Manhattan near the Brooklyn Bridge. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Al Smith has received more than 2,271,382 page views. His biography is available in 28 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 26 in 2019). Al Smith is the 13,694th most popular politician (down from 13,162nd in 2019), the 5,917th most popular biography from United States (up from 6,130th in 2019) and the 379th most popular American Politician.

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  • 4.38

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Al Smith ranks 13,694 out of 19,576. Before him are Palden Thondup Namgyal, Gheorghe Argeșanu, Ibrahim II of Ifriqiya, Beornred of Mercia, Leopold of Styria, and Milan Neralić. After him are Pavel Schilling, José de la Riva Agüero, Frol Kozlov, Mugur Isărescu, Li Rui, and Michel Maffesoli.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1873, Al Smith ranks 140. Before him are Charles P. Dixon, Charles Ruijs de Beerenbrouck, Nikolay Bauman, Jan Janský, E. T. Whittaker, and Oscar von Sydow. After him are W. C. Handy, Princess Louise Charlotte of Saxe-Altenburg, Rudolf Tobias, Leo Slezak, Marcel Boulenger, and Ivan Babushkin. Among people deceased in 1944, Al Smith ranks 240. Before him are Walter Guinness, 1st Baron Moyne, Jurgis Baltrušaitis, Walter Breisky, Settela Steinbach, Hippolyte Aucouturier, and Jacques Roumain. After him are Jean Cavaillès, Wim Anderiesen, Oszkár Gerde, E. O. Plauen, Henry Wood, and Pierre Brossolette.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Al Smith ranks 5,917 out of 20,380. Before him are David Bushnell (1742), Phyllis Smith (1951), Robert Taylor (1932), Max O. Lorenz (1876), Wes Bentley (1978), and John Lee Hancock (1956). After him are Oscar De La Hoya (1973), Harry Daghlian (1921), Armie Hammer (1986), Darlanne Fluegel (1953), Ross the Boss (1954), and Johnny Knoxville (1971).

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Among POLITICIANS In United States

Among politicians born in United States, Al Smith ranks 379. Before him are Salmon P. Chase (1808), Black Kettle (1803), Jon Huntsman Jr. (1960), Juan Trippe (1899), Joe Lieberman (1942), and Helen Herron Taft (1861). After him are Edward Douglass White (1845), Simon Bolivar Buckner (1823), Mirabeau B. Lamar (1798), Lucretia Garfield (1832), Quanah Parker (1845), and Daniel Noboa (1987).

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