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Tweed was re-elected to the state senate in November 1871, due to his personal popularity and largesse in his district, but in general Tammany did not do well, and the members of the Tweed Ring began to flee the jurisdiction, many going overseas. Tweed was re-arrested, forced to resign his city positions, and was replaced as Tammany's leader.
The ring was disbanded in 1871 upon the arrest of Boss Tweed. [ 75 ] [ 79 ] This, coupled with the death of John Kellum that August, halted construction for five years. [ 22 ] At the time, some $11 million had been expended on the courthouse, [ 67 ] [ 80 ] though its true value was estimated to be less than $3 million. [ 80 ]
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)
April 2 – Jacob M. Howard, U.S. Senator from Michigan from 1862 to 1871 (born 1805) April 23 – James Monroe Whitfield, African American barber, poet and abolitionist (born 1822) May 11 – Thomas Buchanan Read, poet and portrait painter (born 1822) July 9 – John Slidell, U.S. Senator from Louisiana from 1853 to 1861 (born 1793)
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.
He was arrested in Chicago, and brought back to New York. In the end, he avoided jail time, and was forced to repay $151,779 to the city. On December 18, 1871, a grand jury indicted Tweed and Woodward on two counts of forgery in the third degree and one count of grand larceny. No trial followed any of these indictments.
One of the biggest urban scandals of the post-Civil War era was the corruption and bribery case of Tammany boss William M. Tweed in 1871 that was uncovered by newspapers. In his first muckraking article "Tweed Days in St. Louis", Lincoln Steffens exposed the graft, a system of
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.