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Tweed never signed his middle name with anything other than a plain "M.", and his middle name is often mistakenly listed as "Marcy". His actual middle name was Magear, his mother's maiden name. [54] Confusion derived from a Nast cartoon with a picture of Tweed supplemented with a quote from William L. Marcy, the former governor of New York. [55]
Articles relating to William M. Tweed, political boss of Tammany Hall (1823 –1878, term 1858-1871), and his term in leadership. Subcategories This category has only the following subcategory.
The Committee of Seventy was a committee of 70 citizens of New York City, formed in 1871 and under the lead of Samuel J. Tilden, which conducted an investigation and prosecution of misuse of government office by William M. Tweed.
Record group: Record Group 111: Records of the Office of the Chief Signal Officer, 1860 - 1985 (National Archives Identifier: 440)Series: Mathew Brady Photographs of Civil War-Era Personalities and Scenes, compiled 1921 - 1940, documenting the period 1860 - 1865 (National Archives Identifier: 524418)
William M. Tweed, head of the Tammany Hall political ring, spent a year in the Tombs after his second trial in 1873 Morris U. Schappes , American educator, writer, radical political activist, historian, and magazine editor, incarcerated in the Tombs after a 1941 perjury conviction obtained in association with testimony before the Rapp-Coudert ...
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Thomas Tweed, (1853–1906), Canadian merchant and politician; Thomas F. Tweed (1890–1940), British soldier and novelist; William M. Tweed (1823–1878), "Boss Tweed," 19th-century New York politician Tweed law, a New York State law; Tweed Roosevelt (born 1942), American businessman, great-grandson of President Theodore Roosevelt
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