# Endorsements in the 1928 Democratic Party presidential primaries

This is a list of endorsements for declared candidates in the Democratic primaries for the 1928 United States presidential election.
This list only includes endorsements by notable individuals and organizations which have been reported in reliable independent sources. Endorsement by individuals does not imply endorsement by their organization.

## Alfred Smith
### U.S. Executive Branch officials

* William Wilson, U.S. Secretary of Labor (1913–1921)
* John H. Caldwell, frmr. Assistant U.S. Assistant Attorney General
* Albert Burleson, U.S. Postmaster General (1913–1921)
* Thomas Watt Gregory, U.S. Attorney General (1914–1919)

### U.S. Senators

       Current
* James Phelan, U.S. Senator from California (1915-1921)
* Thomas Bayard Jr., U.S. Senator from Delaware (1922-1929)
* Daniel Steck, U.S. Senator from Iowa (1926-1931)
* David Walsh, U.S. Senator from Massachusetts (1926-1947)
* William Bruce, U.S. Senator from Maryland (1923-1929)
* Edward Edwards, U.S. Senator from New Jersey (1923-1929)
* Royal Copeland, U.S. Senator from New York (1923-1938)
* Robert Wagner, U.S. Senator from New York (1927-1949)
* Edward Edwards, U.S. Senator from New Jersey (1923-1929)
* Peter Gerry, U.S. Senator from Rhode Island (1917-1929)
       Former
* Oscar Underwood, U.S. Senator from Alabama (1915-1927)
* Johnson Camden Jr., U.S. Senator from Kentucky (1914-1915)

### Governors

* James Cox, Governor of Ohio (1917-1921)
* Nellie Tayloe Ross, Governor of Wyoming (1925-1927)
* Huey Long, Governor of Louisiana (1928-1932)

### Statewide officials

* James Farley, Chairman of the New York State Athletic Commission
* Humphrey J. Lynch, frmr. New York State Supreme Court Justice
* Matt Sullivan, Chief Justice of California (1914-1915) (Republican)
* George Lunn, Lieutenant Governor of New York (1923-1924)
* Charles Cole, Adjutant General of Massachusetts (1914-1916)

### State legislators

* Martin McCue, New York State Senator (1921)

### Local officials

* Jimmy Walker, Mayor of New York City (1926-1932)
* James Curley, Mayor of Boston, Massachusetts (1922-1926)
* Andrew Peters, Mayor of Boston, Massachusetts (1918-1922)
* W.A. Gunter, Jr., Mayor of Montgomery, Alabama (1919-1940)

### Party officials

* J. Bruce Kremer, Democratic National Committeeman (D-MT)
* Joseph Guffey, Democratic National Committeeman (D-PA)
* Isidore Dockweiler, Democratic National Committeeman (D-CA)
* Mrs. John R. Eskridge, Democratic National Committeeman (D-DE)
* John F. Costello, Democratic National Committeeman (D-DC)
* Florence Harriman, Democratic National Committeewoman (D-DC)
* Teresa M. Graham, Democratic National Committeewoman (D-ID)
* D. J. McGillicuddy, Democratic National Committeeman (D-ME)
* Edward Quinn, Democratic National Committeeman (D-MA)
* William Comstock, Democratic National Committeeman (D-MI)
* Etta C. Boltwood, Democratic National Committeewoman (D-MI)
* Joseph Wolf, Democratic National Committeeman (D-MN)
* Jessie E. Scott, Democratic National Committeewoman (D-MN)
* Norman Mack, Democratic National Committeeman (D-NY)
* Elisabeth Marbury, Democratic National Committeewoman (D-NY)
* R. B. Murphy, Democratic National Committeeman (D-ND)
* Will R. King, Democratic National Committeeman (D-OR)
* Patrick H. Quinn, Democratic National Committeeman (D-RI)
* Frank Duffy, Democratic National Committeeman (D-VT)
* George F. Christensen, Democratic National Committeeman (D-WA)
* Elizabeth D. Christian, Democratic National Committeewoman (D-WA)
* C. W. Osenton, Democratic National Committeeman (D-WV)
* John Callahan, Democratic National Committeeman (D-WI)
* Gertrude Bowler, Democratic National Committeewoman (D-WI)
* Patrick J. Quealy, Democratic National Committeeman (D-WY)
* Wilbur Marsh, Democratic National Committee Treasurer (D-IA)
* Park Pollard, Chairman of the Democratic Party of Vermont

### Individuals

* George Olvany, Grand Sachem of Tammany Hall (1924-1929)
* Fred Johnson
* Robert Ewing, publisher
* Edward House, diplomat, adviser to President Woodrow Wilson
* Gertrude Atherton, author
* Eleanor Roosevelt, activist
* Harold Schoenecker, lawyer and businessman
* Caroline O'Day, activist
* Sybil McCaslin Bowers, activist
* Angela Delagi, activist
* Florence Whitney, activist
* Rosalie Solomons Philips, politician
* Gertrude Ely, philanthropist
* Roger Baldwin, Executive Director of the American Civil Liberties Union (1917-1950)

### Ambassadors

* Roland Morris, ambassador to Japan (1917-1920)
* Henry Morgenthau Sr., ambassador to Turkey (1913-1916)
* Robert Jeffery, ambassador to Uruguay (1915-1921)

## James Reed
### U.S. Senators

       Current
* Henry Ashurst, U.S. Senator from Arizona (1912-1941)
* Harry Hawes, U.S. Senator from Missouri (1926-1933)
       Former
* Xenophon Wilfley, U.S. Senator from Missouri (1918)
* Joseph Weldon Bailey, U.S. Senator from Texas (1901-1913)

### Governors

* Jonathan Davis, Governor of Kansas (1923-1925)
* Frederick Gardner, Governor of Missouri (1917-1921)
* Oswald West, Governor of Oregon (1911-1915)

### Individuals

* Samuel Fordyce Jr., businessman
* Ed Villmoare, businessman
* Lee Meriwether, author and government official

### Organizations
## Walter George
### U.S. Senators

* William Harris, U.S. Senator from Georgia (1919-1932)
* Furnifold Simmons, U.S. Senator from North Carolina (1901-1940)

### U.S. Representatives

* Charles Gordon Edwards, U.S. Representative from GA-1 (1925-1931)
* Edward Cox, U.S. Representative from GA-2 (1925-1952)
* Charles Crisp, U.S. Representative from GA-3 (1913-1932)
* William Wright, U.S. Representative from GA-4 (1918-1933)
* Leslie Jasper Steele, U.S. Representative from GA-5 (1927-1929)
* Samuel Rutherford, U.S. Representative from GA-6 (1925-1932)
* Malcolm Tarver, U.S. Representative from GA-7 (1927-1947)
* Charles Hillyer Brand, U.S. Representative from GA-8 (1917-1933)
* Thomas Montgomery Bell, U.S. Representative from GA-9 (1905-1931)
* Carl Vinson, U.S. Representative from GA-10 (1914-1965)
* William Chester Lankford, U.S. Representative from GA-11 (1919-1933)
* William Washington Larsen, U.S. Representative from GA-12 (1917-1933)

### Local officials

* Clark Howell, State Senator from Georgia

### Party officials

* John Cohen, Democratic National Committeeman (D-GA)

### Individuals

* George F. Milton, editor of The Chattanooga News
* Mary Harris Armor, temperance leader

### Organizations
## Thomas Walsh
### U.S. Executive Branch officials

* William McAdoo, U.S. Secretary of the Treasury (1913–1918)
* Josephus Daniels, U.S. Secretary of the Navy (1913–1921)

### U.S. Senators

* Woodbridge Ferris, U.S. Senator from Michigan (1923-1928)
* Burton Wheeler, U.S. Senator from Montana (1923-1947)
* Henry Myers, U.S. Senator from Montana (1911-1923)

### U.S. Representatives

* Tom Stout, U.S. Representative from MT-AL Seat B (1913-1917)

### Governors

* Sam Stewart, Governor of Montana (1913-1921)

### State legislators

* Claude F. Morris, State Senator from Montana (1916-1920)
* James O'Connor, State Representative from Montana (1917-1918)

### Party officials

* James Moyle, Democratic National Committeeman (D-UT)

### Individuals

* George F. Milton, publisher
* Ella Boole, temperance leader and social reformer
* Kathleen Norris, novelist and newspaper columnist
* George Creel, investigative journalist, writer and government official

### Organizations
## Albert Ritchie
### Individuals

* Michael Joseph Curley, Archbishop of the Archdiocese of Washington

### Organizations
## Evans Woolen
### Party officials

* Charles A. Greathouse, Democratic National Committeeman (D-IN)