Al Smith
Sign in to saveAlso known as Alfred Emanuel "Al" Smith, Alfred Emanuel Smith I, Alfred Emanuel Smith Sr., Alfred E. Smith, Alfred Smith, Alfred Emanuel Smith, Alfred Emanuel Smith Jr.
American statesman and governor (1873–1944)
OverviewAI-generated
Al Smith was an American male musician associated with genres including blues, jazz, psychedelic rock, rap, and folk rock. MusicBrainz also classifies his work under acoustic rock, indie, and indie folk. He was born on December 30, 1873, and died on October 4, 1944. Smith had five children.
An author named Al Smith has published 36 works, including the *Project Management Professional Workbook*, *Certified Associate in Project Management Workbook*, *PMI-ACP Self-Study Flash Cards*, *PMI-RMP Self-Study Flash Cards*, and the *PMI-RMP Risk Management Professional Exam Preparation Workbook*. Crossref lists five works for this name.
A quote attributed to Al Smith states, "All the ills of democracy can be cured by more democracy." The subject is referenced by 1,952 other encyclopedia articles.
Synthesized by Vinony from 20 facts across 7 sources: Wikidata, Last.fm, Crossref, Wikiquote, MusicBrainz, Open Library, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.
Person · Open Library
- Works
- 36
Top works
- Project Management Professional Workbook
- Certified Associate in Project Management Workbook
- PMI-ACP Self-Study Flash Cards
- PMI-RMP Self-Study Flash Cards
- PMI-RMP Risk Management Professional Exam Preparation Workbook
via Open Library + Wikidata
Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- United States
- Active from
- 1969-08-06
- Active to
- 2003-10-21
Discography
- Shytown / No Confidence Man1994
- Roman Candle1994
- Needle in the Hay1995
- Elliott Smith1995
- Speed Trials1996
- Division Day / No Name #61997
- Either/Or1997
- Ballad of Big Nothing1998
- XO1998
- Waltz #2 (XO)1998
via MusicBrainz · CC0
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 1,464
- Total plays
- 6,778
Tags
Albert B. Smith was born in Bolivar County, Mississippi, on November 23, 1923. His family moved to Pace, Mississippi, in 1927. He danced with a jug band on the streets of Rosedale, Mississippi, when he was 7. He learned how to play the string bass in a school band after hearing Big Joe Williams and other Delta bluesmen at his mother's barrelhouse. After shipping out with the Merchant Marine in 1940, he arrived in Chicago in 1943. In 1945 he started what he referred to as a "bebop" band. <a href
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Bias in meta-analysis detected by a simple, graphical test
· 1997 · cited 48,686x
- Colorimetric Method for Determination of Sugars and Related Substances
· 1956 · cited 42,310x
- SciPy 1.0: fundamental algorithms for scientific computing in Python
· 2020 · cited 36,562x
- GROMACS: High performance molecular simulations through multi-level parallelism from laptops to supercomputers
· 2015 · cited 25,387x
- Array programming with NumPy
· 2020 · cited 23,494x
via Crossref · CC0
Quotes
- “The American people never carry an umbrella. They prepare to walk in eternal sunshine. In times of prosperity and plenty, the public...orator who would suggest a measure for unemployment relief would find it most difficult to get an audience....There is little doubt in my mind that we may be able to work out some system of deferring portions of public works and holding them in reserve for...unemployment.”
- “All the ills of democracy can be cured by more democracy.”
via Wikiquote · CC BY-SA
Key facts
- Lieutenant
- George R. Lunn , Seymour Lowman , Edwin Corning
- Preceded by
- Nathan L. Miller
- Succeeded by
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Born
- Alfred Emanuel Smith , ( 1873-12-30 ) December 30, 1873, New York City , New York, U.S.
- Died
- October 4, 1944 (1944-10-04) (aged 70), New York City, New York, U.S.
- Resting place
- Calvary Cemetery
- Party
- Democratic
- Spouse
- Catherine Dunn ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. May 6, 1900</span>"}]]}'>1900 ; died May 4, 1944</span>"}]]}'>1944 )
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
Alfred Emanuel Smith (December 30, 1873 – October 4, 1944) was an American politician who served as the 42nd governor of New York from 1919 to 1920 and again from 1923 to 1928. A member of the Democratic Party, he was the party's presidential nominee in the 1928 presidential election, losing to Republican nominee Herbert Hoover in a landslide.
The son of an Irish American mother and a Civil War–veteran Italian American father, Smith was born and raised on the Lower East Side of Manhattan, New York City, near the Brooklyn Bridge. He resided in that neighborhood for his entire life. Although Smith remained personally untarnished by corruption, he—like many other New York Democrats—was linked to the notorious Tammany Hall political machine that controlled New York City politics during his era. Smith served in the New York State Assembly from 1904 to 1915 and was the speaker of the Assembly in 1913. He also served as the sheriff of New York County from 1916 to 1917. He was first elected governor in 1918, lost his 1920 bid for re-election, and was elected again in 1922, 1924, and 1926. Smith was the foremost urban leader of the efficiency movement in the U.S. and was noted for achieving a wide range of reforms as governor.
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