Frank Graham, Sr. (November 12, 1893 – March 9, 1965) was an American sportswriter and biographer.
 He covered sports in New York for the "New York Sun" from 1915 to 1943 and for the "New York Journal-American" from 1945 to 1965.
 He was also a successful author, writing biographies of politician Al Smith and athletes Lou Gehrig and John McGraw, as well as histories of the New York Yankees, New York Giants and Brooklyn Dodgers.
 Graham's writing style was notable for his use of lengthy passages of "unrelieved dialogue" in developing portraits of the persons about whom he wrote.
 Graham was posthumously inducted into the "writers wing" of the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum in 1972.
 He was also posthumously honored in 1997 by the Boxing Writers Association of America with its highest honor, the A.J. Liebling Award.
Lehman College is a senior college of the City University of New York (CUNY) in New York, United States.
 Founded in 1931 as the Bronx campus of Hunter College, the school became an independent college within CUNY in September 1967.
 The college is named after Herbert H. Lehman, a former New York governor, United States senator, and philanthropist.
 It is a public, comprehensive, coeducational liberal arts college with more than 90 undergraduate and graduate degree programs and specializations.
Bouck's Island is a farm near Breakabeen, New York within the town of Fulton, Schoharie County, New York near Fultonham, New York.
 Bouck's Island was the home of former New York governor William C. Bouck.
 Congressman Joseph Bouck was born on Bouck's Island and Wisconsin Congressman Gabriel Bouck once lived there.
Hoffman Island is a small (11 acre; 0.045 km²) artificial island in the Lower New York Bay, off South Beach, Staten Island.
 Another, smaller (4 acre; 0.016 km²) artificial island, Swinburne Island, lies immediately to the south.
 Created in 1873 upon the Orchard Shoals by the addition of landfill, the island is named for former New York City mayor (1866–1868) and New York Governor (1869–1871) John Thompson Hoffman.
Ben Olan (born March 31, 1923) is a sports author and journalist.
 A former sports writer for the New York Associated Press, he won the Elmer Ferguson Memorial Award in 1987 and is a member of the media section of the Hockey Hall of Fame.
 He joined the Associated Press in 1952 as a sports writer, covering hockey, and retired after 51 years in the profession, around 2003.
The New York State Thruway, often called simply the Thruway, is a system of limited-access highways located within the state of New York in the United States.
 The system, known officially as the Governor Thomas E. Dewey Thruway for former New York Governor Thomas E. Dewey, is operated by the New York State Thruway Authority (NYSTA) and comprises 569.83 mi of highway.
 The tolled mainline of the Thruway extends for 496.00 mi from the New York City line at Yonkers to the Pennsylvania state line at Ripley by way of Albany, Syracuse, and Buffalo.
 According to the International Bridge, Tunnel and Turnpike Association, the Thruway is the fifth busiest toll road in the United States.
Bernadette Castro (born July 10, 1944, Manhattan, New York) is a businesswoman and former New York politician who served in the Cabinet of former New York Governor George Pataki.
 She is the CEO of Castro Convertibles, a convertible furniture company based in Locust Valley, New York.
 She is also a partner with her family in Castro Properties.
Margaret I. Cuomo is an American radiologist, author, philanthropist, advocate, and blogger on health issues, especially those related to cancer prevention.
 She is the eldest daughter of former New York Governor Mario Cuomo and former New York First Lady Matilda Cuomo, and sister to current New York Governor Andrew Cuomo and journalist Chris Cuomo.
 She resides in New York.
Libby Pataki (born Mary Elizabeth Rowland; November 17, 1950) is the former First Lady of New York and the wife of former New York Governor George Pataki.
 She served as First Lady during the three terms of her husband's administration.
 Governor Pataki did not seek re-election to a fourth term in 2006.
Alfred Emanuel "Al" Smith (December 30, 1873 – October 4, 1944) was an American politician who was elected Governor of New York four times and was the Democratic U.S. presidential candidate in 1928.

Question: What former New York governor had his biography written by sports writer Frank Graham, Sr?
Answer: Alfred Emanuel "Al" Smith