A collection of papers of William Sulzer. 1900?-1943.

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A collection of papers of William Sulzer. 1900?-1943.

Materials in the collection are related to Sulzer's impeachment from the Governorship of New York, Al Smith's nomination to the Presidency, the Prohibition Party, and Tammany Hall. The scrapbook contains items related to machine politics in the late 1920's in New York and on the national level.

.5 linear feet.

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Tammany Hall.

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Smith, Alfred Emanuel, 1873-1944

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Alfred Emanuel Smith (December 30, 1873 – October 4, 1944) was an American politician who served four terms as Governor of New York and was the Democratic Party's candidate for president 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 1920s. 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 Bri...

Prohibition Party

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Sulzer, William, 1863-1941

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New York politician William Sulzer (1863-1941) served as a United States Representative from New York (1895-1912). During 1912 Sulzer chaired the United States House Committee on Foreign Affairs. In January, 1913 Sulzer was elected governor of New York State. Shortly after his inauguration, he was impeached by the New York State Assembly on charges of having diverted campaign funds to his own use. Sulzer asserted that false charges had been brought against him because he refused to follow the wi...