Jones was a friend and admirer of William Jennings Bryan but also campaigned throughout the South for Herbert Hoover ( and against Al Smith ) during the 1928 presidential election.

America was prosperous and optimistic at the time, leading to a landslide victory for Hoover over Democrat Al Smith.

Hoover campaigned for efficiency and the Republican record of prosperity against Democrat Alfred E. Smith.

Smith was a " wet " who called for its repeal, whereas Hoover gave limited support for prohibition, calling it an " experiment noble in purpose ".

Hoover managed to crack the so-called " Solid South ", winning such Democratic strongholds as Florida, North Carolina, Virginia, Texas and Tennessee ; the Deep South stood with Smith.

** U. S. presidential election, 1928: Republican Herbert Hoover wins by a wide margin over Democrat Alfred E. Smith.

The United States presidential election of 1928 pitted Republican Herbert Hoover against Democrat Al Smith.

John Smith and David Hoover were among the earliest settlers.

Earliest settlers were the families of David Hoover, David Mast, Daniel Hoover, Robert Ewing, John and Abraham McClintock, John Rench, Martin Sheets, Jacob Smith, Daniel and Peter Fetters.

Most importantly, this was a time of national prosperity under a Republican Presidency and Smith lost in a landslide to Republican Herbert Hoover.

During the 1928 presidential election, Bilbo helped Al Smith carry the state despite overwhelming anti-Catholicism, by claiming that Herbert Hoover had met with a black member of the Republican National Committee and danced with her.

The phrase " Yellow Dog Democrat " is thought to have achieved popularity during the 1928 Presidential race between the Democratic Al Smith and Republican candidate Herbert Hoover, when Senator J. Thomas Heflin ( D-Alabama ) crossed party lines to support Hoover.

The main surge of women voting came in 1928, when the big-city machines realized they needed the support of women to elect Al Smith, while rural dries mobilized women to support Prohibition and vote for Republican Herbert Hoover.

When Coolidge declined to run again in the 1928 election, the Republican Party nominated engineer and Secretary of Commerce Herbert Hoover, who was elected by a wide margin over Al Smith, the first Catholic nominee.

Soon this information was leaked to the press, which sought verification that the police were closing in on the kidnapper or kidnappers .< ref > Hoover, J. Edgar Director FBI < u > Memorandum For Mr. Smith </ u > September 13, 1934.

After Smith lost to Republican candidate Herbert Hoover, Robinson emerged from the campaign a national figure, now known for the impassioned speeches he had made around the country on behalf of Smith and the Democratic platform.

On March 10, 1995, during a radio debate hosted by WMAQ-AM, Tillman and Smith called for Davis to reject the endorsement of former alderman candidate Wallace " Gator " Bradley, spokesman for convicted Gangster Disciples leader Larry Hoover.

That year, the Democrats had selected Alfred Smith as their Presidential nominee to challenge the Republican Herbert Hoover.

Smith, a Catholic, supported the end of Prohibition and he spoke out against “ religious bigots .” Hoover won the presidency in an overwhelming national landslide with 58 % of the popular vote.

In Oklahoma Hoover did even better and trounced Smith with 63. 7 % of the vote and many Oklahoma Republicans won state offices due to his coattails, including seats on the Oklahoma Supreme Court, a near majority in the Oklahoma House, and considerable gains in the Oklahoma Senate.

Smith was the nominee of the Democratic Party but lost the election to Herbert Hoover of the Republican Party.

She was not an overnight guest in the White House, but Mr. Ike Hoover, the chief usher, had Mama check her fur coat when she came in, and take care of her needs.

Sent to Montpelier by Secretary Herbert Hoover, Red Cross Aide Reuben Sleight had been killed, and his pilot, Lt. Franklin Wolfe, badly injured.

J. Edgar Hoover, who had instructed the FBI to keep extensive secret files on him, tried to end his United States residency.

FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover opposed the internment, not on constitutional grounds, but because he believed that the most likely spies had already been arrested by the FBI shortly after the Japanese surprise attack on Pearl Harbor.

Hoover, who had made a small fortune in mining, was the first of two Presidents to redistribute their salary ( President Kennedy was the other ; he donated all his paychecks to charity ).

The Hoovers had two sons, Herbert Clark Hoover Jr. ( 1903 – 69 ) and Allan Henry Hoover ( 1907 – 93 ).

It recalled the nickname he had acquired in the Australian outback: " Hail Columbia " Hoover.

Sixty-six years after opening the mine in 1897, Hoover still had a partial share in the Sons of Gwalia mines when it finally closed in 1963, just one year before the former President's death in New York City in 1964.

Herbert Hoover, acting as a main investor, financier, mining speculator and organizer of men, played a major role in the important metallurgical developments that occurred in Broken Hill in the first decade of the twentieth century, developments that had a great impact on the world mining and production of silver, lead and zinc.

It was determined that Hoover had given extremely detailed maps of the area to Stanford University.

Also, Hoover confessed that he could not run for a party whose only member in his boyhood home had been the town drunk.

Although he had personal misgivings about the capability of the nominee, Warren G. Harding, Hoover publicly endorsed him and made two speeches for Harding.

Coolidge had been reluctant to choose Hoover as his successor ; on one occasion he remarked that " for six years that man has given me unsolicited advice — all of it bad.

Unlike many previous first ladies, when Hoover's wife, Lou Henry Hoover, came to the White House, she had already carved out her own reputation, having graduated from Stanford as the only woman in her class with a degree in geology.

Hoover mediated between Chile and Peru to solve a conflict on the sovereignty of Arica and Tacna, that in 1883 by the Treaty of Ancón had been awarded to Chile for ten years, to be followed by a plebiscite that had never happened.

Hoover had long been a proponent of the concept that public-private cooperation was the way to achieve high long-term growth.

When Hoover took over the Bureau of Investigation, it had approximately 650 employees, including 441 Special Agents.

Hoover said the Bureau had " much more important functions " than arresting bookmakers and gamblers.

In 1956, several years before he targeted King, Hoover had a public showdown with T. R. M.

Hack notes that Hoover was romantically linked to actress Dorothy Lamour in the late 1930s and early 1940s, and that after Hoover's death, Lamour did not deny rumors that she had had an affair with Hoover in the years between her two marriages.