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Under the able leadership of James A. Farley, the Democrats put together the famous New Deal coalition, a broad spectrum of supporters that included labor, farmers, the unemployed, Southerners, many urban voters, Catholics, Jews, and, for the first time in the nation's history, an overwhelming majority of the African American vote. The New Deal coalition centered its efforts in the cities, courted city machine bosses, and developed a friendly relationship with American Catholics. Whereas Republican presidents during the 1920s had named only eight Catholics to federal judgeships, Roosevelt had appointed fifty-one during his first term of office. Catholic priests praised the president and his programs from their pulpits.
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