| The Democratic Candidate of 1928 and His National
Chairman, John J Raskob, at the Raskob home in Delaware, October 1928.
Smith appointed businessman Raskob his Democratic National Chairman in order
to ensure the business community that he would support their interests.
Raskob was also a Catholic, but as a Du Pont executive and the VP and Chairman
of the Finance Committee of GM, he could help to attract leaders of the
business community. Source: Edmund Moore, A Catholic Runs for
President (1928). |
