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Smith Nominated By The Democrats At Houston
The Democratic national convention in Houston nominates Gov. Alfred E. Smith of New York for president on the first ballot with Senator Joseph T. Robinson of Arkansas, amid enthusiastic parades and platform battles. Franklin Roosevelt presents Smith, and Jesse H. Jones of Houston wins strong support as a national committee figure.
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Alfred E. Smith
Democratic National Convention
Robinson
Arkansas
Harmony Convention
Sam Houston Hall
Houston
Texas
New York
Joseph T. Robinson
Smith
al Smith
Walker
Jimmy Walker
National Committee
United States
Committee
Platform
Corn Belt
Kansas City
Resolutions Committee
Congress
Harding
Coolidge
Mellon
Sassity
Platchert Hoover
Curtis
Jim Reed
Missouri
Reed
Claude G. Bowers
New York City
Washington
Bowers
Democratic Party
Champ Clark
Committee On
Louisiana
H. C. Fields
State Central Executive Committee
Genevieve Clark Thompson
Committee On Rules
Roosevelt
Franklin Roosevelt
Madison Square Garden
New York Standard
Walter F. George
Georgia
Charles R. Crisp
George
Alabama
North Carolina
South Carolina
Florida
Nebraska
W. H. O'Brien
Evans Woolen
Indiana
William Ayers
Kansas
George McGill
Nellie T. Ross
Wyoming
Ritchie
Maryland
M. Howell
Manise
Herbert Hoover
Howell
Oklahoma
Philippines
Jesse Jones
Huston Thompson
Colorado
Atlee Pomerone
Ohio
Gilbert M. Hitchcock
Cordell Hull
Tennessee
Jesse H. Jones
Pride
Dan Moody
Harmony Workers
Carter Glass
Moody
Glass
Jimmy
Station
Rice Hotel
Galveston
Gulf
Committee On Entertainment
Miss Houston
National Woman's Party
Miss Sue White
Jackson, Tenn
Women's Committee
Constitutional Liberty League
Jesus Christ
Elizabeth Marbury
Chauncey Olcott
Douglas Robinson
Theodore Roosevelt
Marius de Brabant
Senator Clark
Montana
Kenneth O’brien
Clarence H. Mackey
Frederick Nathan
National Housewives’ League
Herbert Satterlee
J. Pierpont Morgan
Anna Katherine Green
Arthur Curtis James
Alice Foote MacDougall
Elizabeth Stokes
Frederick Allen
Idaho
North Dakota
South Dakota
Oregon
Wisconsin
Delaware
Mississippi
Vermont
Woodrow Wilson
White House
Clem Shaver
Jones
Oscar F. Holcombe
Sam Houston State Teachers’ College
Shaver
Sam Houston
Huntsville
Bishop Hay
Andrew Jackson Houston
Col
Nicholas M. Bell
St. Louis
Colonel Bell
Seymour
Blair
Grover Cleveland
Pioneer Missourian
Urey Woodson
Kentucky
Woodson
Bluegrass
William Jennings Bryan
Roy L. Fernal
Maine
Hoover
Fernal
Harvard