Farley, Jim (1888–1976)

US businessman and public official. Prominent in New York State Democratic politics, he worked for Al Smith and Franklin D Roosevelt, was chairman of the Democratic National Committee and postmaster general. He left politics and joined the Coca-Cola Export Corporation.

He was born in Grassy Point, New York. He was a bookkeeper and company correspondent before he formed a building supplies company. He managed Roosevelt's first run for governor of New York and backed him at the 1932 and 1936 Democratic Conventions, but he broke with Roosevelt in 1940 over the issue of a third term, and, failing to get the Democratic nomination for himself, he went back to business.