Pat Harrison letter, 1928 Oct. 1.

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Pat Harrison letter, 1928 Oct. 1.

Pat Harrison, writing in his capacity as a member of the Advisory Committee of the Democratic National Committee, expresses to a party supporter in Mississippi his optimism for the presidential candidacy of Al Smith.

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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...

Harrison, Pat, 1881-1941

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Pat Harrison was born at Crystal Springs, Miss., taught school at Leakesville, Miss., was admitted to the bar in 1902, and served as district attorney for the second district of Mississippi (1906-1910). He was a U.S. Representative (1911-1919) and U.S. Senator (1919-1941) for Mississippi and died in Washington, D.C. From the description of Pat Harrison letter, 1928 Oct. 1. (Louisiana State University). WorldCat record id: 726850640 U.S. Senator from Mississippi. ...

Democratic National Committee (U.S.). Advisory Committee.

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