Its namesake Al Smith himself won election four times to be governor of New York. Hochul and Zeldin are both vying for their first. Early voting starts in just over a week.

A useful model is found in Alfred E. Smith, the four-term New York governor and 1928 Democratic presidential nominee who engaged in a raucous preview of his transformative national campaign here ...

The Time a New York Governor Disobeyed the Federal Government When Al Smith had the chance not to enforce Prohibition, he took it. New York Gov. Al Smith speaks in New York on Nov. 2, 1928. | AP Photo ...

Thousands lined the streets to witness the once and future governor’s procession from the train station to the Executive Mansion on Eagle Street, where Al Smith Jr. looked “as spic and span as ...

Al Smith wins his third term as New York governor in 1924; in 1974, Albany County ... Lowman would become the last lieutenant governor of New York who was not the running mate of the elected ...

Terry Golway’s “Frank and Al” describes what brought FDR and Al Smith together, and how they began “The Unlikely Alliance that Created the Modern Democratic Party.” ...

New York City’s most populous borough, Brooklyn, is home to nearly 2.6 million residents. If Brooklyn were an independent city it would be the fourth largest city in the United States.

In 1928, after four productive terms as governor, Smith ran for president on the merits of this New York resume. Indeed, asserted social work pioneer Lillian Wald, Smith had "done more to promote ...

IF Al Smith goes to the White House, no small part of the credit will belong to the young men. Behind the Tammany organization of New York, behind the mass of deserving Democrats who are hoping to ...

A century ago, Al Smith was a force in American politics—and the first Catholic to mount a major run at the White House. And if he is to be believed, he didn't know what an encyclical was.