In 1926, Hughes was appointed by New York Governor Alfred E. Smith to be the chairman of a State Reorganization Commission through which Smith's plan to place the Governor as the head of a rationalized state government, was accomplished, bringing to realization what Hughes himself had envisioned.

His Democratic opponent was Robert L. Moran, an alderman from the Bronx who had succeeded to the Board presidency in 1918 when Alfred E. Smith, who had been elected Board President in 1917, became Governor.

** Alfred Walton Hinds, 17th Naval Governor of Guam ( b. 1874 )

* June 29 – 1928 Democratic National Convention: At the Democratic National Convention in Houston, New York Governor Alfred E. Smith becomes the first Catholic nominated by a major political party for President of the United States.

* July 25 – Alfred Walton Hinds, 17th Naval Governor of Guam ( d. 1957 )

In 1895, a plan was hatched with the connivance of the Cape Prime Minister Cecil Rhodes, Johannesburg gold magnate Alfred Beit, and Sir Alfred Milner ( British High Commissioner for South Africa and Lieutenant Governor of the Cape ) to liberate Johannesburg from the control of the Transvaal government.

These figures included Cape Colony Governor Sir Alfred Milner, Cape Prime Minister Cecil Rhodes, British Colonial Secretary Joseph Chamberlain, and mining syndicate owners or Randlords ( nicknamed the gold bugs ), such as Alfred Beit, Barney Barnato, and Lionel Phillips.

However, in 1936, thanks to a recommendation made by Sir Alfred Claud Hollis ( Governor of Trinidad and Tobago, 1930 – 36 ), the Leathersellers ' Company awarded him a £ 50 grant to continue his advanced research in history at Oxford.

In 1926 he became Mayor of New York City, having defeated incumbent John F. Hylan in the 1925 Democratic primary with the help of Governor Alfred E. Smith and Tammany Hall.

During the 1930s, an attempt by Mississippi Governor Theodore G. Bilbo to move The University of Mississippi to Jackson, was prevented by then Chancellor Alfred Hume by giving Mississippi legislators a grand tour of Ole Miss and the surrounding city of Oxford.

During this period Kitchener struggled against Sir Alfred Milner, the Governor of the Cape Colony, and the British government.

Buchan entered into a career in diplomacy and government after graduating from Oxford, becoming the private secretary to Alfred Milner, who was then the High Commissioner for Southern Africa, Governor of Cape Colony, and colonial administrator of Transvaal and the Orange Free State, putting Buchan in what came to be known as Milner's Kindergarten.

* Alfred H. Colquitt-Georgia Governor and Senator who served as a Confederate officer.

Alfred Emanuel " Al " Smith ( December 30, 1873 – October 4, 1944 ) was an American statesman who was elected the 42nd Governor of New York three times and was the Democratic U. S. presidential candidate in 1928.

* Alan Bunce – Governor Alfred E. Smith

Major-General Alexander Augustus Frederick William Alfred George Cambridge, 1st Earl of Athlone ( born Prince Alexander of Teck ; 14 April 187416 January 1957 ), was the husband of Princess Alice of Albany ( a granddaughter of Queen Victoria ) and a British military commander and major-general who served as Governor-General of the Union of South Africa, the country's fourth, and as Governor General of Canada, the 16th since Canadian Confederation.

* Alfred E. Smith ( 1873 – 1944 ), Governor of New York State and 1928 U. S. Presidential candidate

In an aside that illustrates the complexities of Southern political allegiances during the relevant period, Portis's narrator Mattie Ross says: " brought a good deal of misery to the land in the Panic of ’ 93 but I am not ashamed to own that my family supported him and has stayed with the Democrats right on through, up to and including Governor Alfred Smith, and not only because of Joe Robinson.

In the wake of his resignation, Alfred Deakin provided an explanatory editorial under alias for the British public in the Morning Post: ‘ Our first Governor General may be said to have taken with him all the decorations and display and some of the anticipations that splendidly surrounded the inauguration of our national existence ... we have ... revised our estimate of high office, stripping it too hastily, but not unkindly, of its festal trappings.

After that period he held no public office, except that he was one of the presidential electors in the canvass of 1860, and by appointment of Governor William Alfred Buckingham was a delegate to the Peace Convention which met in Washington, in 1861, by request of the State of Virginia.

In 1949, Brennan was appointed to the Superior Court ( a trial court ) by Governor of New Jersey Alfred E. Driscoll.

He then switches back to a consideration of the seven principal Presidential hopefuls: five Democrats -- Senator Hubert H. Humphrey, Senator Stuart Symington, Senator Lyndon B. Johnson, Adlai E. Stevenson and Mr. Kennedy -- and two Republicans -- Governor Rockefeller and Mr. Nixon.

When Governor Al Smith offered New York National Guard planes to fly the mail in and out of the state, it seemed a likely temporary solution, easing Burlington's bottleneck and that at Montpelier too.

* 1811 – A theater fire in Richmond, Virginia kills the Governor of Virginia George William Smith and the president of the First National Bank of Virginia Abraham B. Venable.

* 1969 – Governor of Texas Preston Smith signs a bill into law converting the former Southwest Center for Advanced Studies, originally founded as a research arm of Texas Instruments, into the University of Texas at Dallas.

* 1912 – Preston Smith, America politician, 40th Governor of Texas ( d. 2003 )

* March 8 – Preston Smith, Governor of Texas ( d. 2003 )

New York Governor Al Smith ( who would become the Democratic Party's candidate for president in 1928 ) then threw out the first pitch directly into the glove of catcher Wally Schang rather than the customary couple of feet wide.

* Pocahontas: Pocahontas, Meeko, Flit, John Smith, Governor Ratcliffe, Grandmother Willow, Chief Powhatan, Kekata, Wiggins, Thomas, and Nakoma.

It was named after George Smith Houston, the 24th Governor of Alabama.

From 1800 to 1814, the couple had eight children, including Arietta Minthorn Tompkins ( born July 31, 1800 ), who married a son of Smith Thompson in 1818, and ( Mangle ) Minthorne Tompkins ( December 26, 1807 – June 5, 1881 ), who was the Free Soil Party candidate for Governor of New York in 1852.

Price County was created on March 3, 1879, when Wisconsin Governor William E. Smith signed legislation creating the county.

Two-time Governor of Virginia, William " Extra Billy " Smith, was born at Marengo in 1797.

In 2009, under the leadership of Tennessee Governor Phil Bredesen and Haywood County Mayor Franklin Smith, a tract in southwestern Haywood County near Stanton has been designated for a state-supported industrial " megasite ," intended for a large-scale industrial or business development such as an automobile assembly plant.

Other people who have lived in Deptford, range from the First Governor of the Honourable East India Company, and Ambassador to the court of Russia, Sir Thomas Smith, whose magnificent house was destroyed by fire in 1618 ; to early members of the Chartist movement, John Gast and George Julian Harney ; and the Cleveleys, John Cleveley the Elder and his sons John and Robert, a family of marine artists who also worked as tradesmen in the Dockyard.

At that time the first Governor of Missouri, Alexander McNair, appointed James Austin as Presiding Judge and George McGahan and James W Smith as judges for the first St. Francois County Court.

James Austin, George McGahan and James W. Smith were appointed by the Governor as a county court, and their first meeting, held February 25, 1822, was at the house of Jesse Murphy, where they appointed John D. Peers as county clerk.

The county was officially organized on November 13, 1857, and was named after U. S. Representative and Governor of Missouri John Smith Phelps.

* William Smith ( Virginia governor ) ( 1797 – 1887 ), Governor of Virginia ( 1846 – 1849, 1864 – 1865 ) and Confederate general

* William E. Smith ( 1824 – 1883 ), Governor of Wisconsin ( 1878 – 1882 )

* William Smith ( Virginia governor ) ( 1797 – 1887 ), Governor of Virginia ( 1846 – 1849, 1864 – 1865 ) and Confederate general