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He was a leader of the Tammany Hall political organization, a vehement critic of the Civil Service, and notably responsible for a series of colloquial and practical short talks recorded in "Plunkitt of Tammany Hall," which comprise his observations and successful mastery of machine politics. [1]
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 .
Tammany Society members also called him St. Tammany, the Patron Saint of America. [ 1 ] Tammanies are remembered today for New York City's Tammany Hall —also popularly known as the Great Wigwam—but such societies were not limited to New York, with Tammany Societies in several locations in the colonies, and later, the young country.
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]
Tammany Hall had dominated New York City politics from the mayoral victory of Fernando Wood in 1854 until the election of Fiorello H. La Guardia in 1933. [2] DeSapio was first elected a district captain in 1939, but was rejected by the leadership in the struggle between Irish and Italian interests for control of the organization. [ 3 ]
The 1868 Democratic National Convention was held at the Tammany Hall headquarters building in New York City between July 4, and July 9, 1868. The first Democratic convention after the conclusion of the American Civil War, the convention was notable for the return of Democratic Party politicians from the Southern United States.
Tammany Dem. 7th James Daly* Democrat re-elected 8th Thomas C. Dunham: Democrat 9th John J. Cullen* Tam./Irv. H. Dem. re-elected 10th William C. Traphagen: Democrat 11th George W. Plunkitt* Tammany Dem. re-elected 12th Henry C. Nelson* Democrat re-elected 13th Henry R. Low* Republican re-elected 14th Henry C. Connelly: Republican 15th Jacob W ...
Richard Croker – Tammany Hall boss [29] Joseph Crowley – US Congressman [30] Ted Cruz - Texas Senator [31] James Michael Curley – legendary Boston mayor, US Congressman, and Massachusetts governor [32] Thomas Cusack – US Congressman [33] Richard J. Daley – Chicago mayor [34] Richard M. Daley – Chicago mayor; son of Richard J. Daley