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William Magear "Boss" Tweed [note 1] (April 3, 1823 – April 12, 1878) was an American politician most notable for being the political boss of Tammany Hall, the Democratic Party's political machine that played a major role in the politics of 19th-century New York City and State.
Sharkey's early adulthood coincided with the rise to power of William Tweed, whose Tammany Hall political machine had seized control of the city and engaged in systemic political corruption. Sharkey and his gang soon came to the attention of Tweed and his associates, who saw an opportunity to feed Sharkey's ambition while serving their own goals.
Tammany Hall's electoral base lay predominantly with New York's burgeoning immigrant constituency, which often exchanged political support for Tammany Hall's patronage. In pre- New Deal America, the extralegal services that Tammany and other urban political machines provided often served as a rudimentary public welfare system .
When politicians backed by the Tammany Hall political machine won the New York elections of 1903 and ousted the good government Steffens had praised, Steffens, feeling "all up in the air," traveled to Cos Cob, Connecticut, where he adapted these articles into The Shame of the Cities. McClure, Philips, and Co. first published the book in 1904. [19]
The already-weakened Tammany Hall had relied on Rothstein to control the new street gangs, and his death finished the corrupt political organization. [24] With Tammany's fall, reformer Fiorello La Guardia rose in prominence and was elected Mayor of New York City in 1933.
Richard Welstead Croker (November 24, 1843 – April 29, 1922), known as "Boss Croker", was an Irish American political boss who was a leader of New York City's Tammany Hall. [1] His control over the city was cemented with the 1897 election of Robert A. Van Wyck as the first mayor of all five boroughs .
"The Taming of the Tiger: The Lexow Committee Investigation of Tammany Hall and the Police Department of the City of New York." Police Studies: The International Review of Police Development 3 (1980): 55+. excerpt; Czitrom, Daniel J. New York Exposed: The Gilded Age Police Scandal that Launched the Progressive Era (Oxford University Press, 2016)
Captain Isaiah Rynders (1804 – January 3, 1885) was an American businessman, sportsman, underworld figure and political organizer for Tammany Hall.Founder of the Empire Club, a powerful political organization in New York during the mid-19th century, his "sluggers" committed voter intimidation and election fraud on behalf of Tammany Hall throughout the 1840s and 1850s before Tammany became an ...