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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.
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.
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 ...
William M. Tweed, most of Tammany's politicians, and many prominent businessmen were in the "War" faction, while Mozart Hall was the center of the "Peace" Democrats in New York. While the division between Tammany and Mozart had worked in Wood's favor in 1859, in 1861 it caused Republican George Opdyke to be elected, over Wood and Tammany's C ...
October 27 – Boss Tweed of Tammany Hall is arrested for bribery, ending his grip on New York City. c. November – The South Improvement Company is formed in Pennsylvania by John D. Rockefeller and a group of major railroad interests, in an early effort to organize and control the petroleum industry in the U.S.
Under Jones, The New-York Times actively sought to challenge William M. Tweed and the Tweed Ring. [citation needed] The death of Taylor, who was a business partner of Tweed's through the New-York Printing Company, in September 1870 allowed the Times to attack the Tweed Ring. [26]
Prince William also spoke of Anton Mzimba, a ranger in South Africa who was killed by poachers, saying he was "assassinated in his home for doing his job, protecting the incredible biodiversity of ...
In fact, Tilden was the chief opponent of Tweed, Hall, et al. [4] Hall was implicated in the William M. Tweed's corruption scandal and indicted in early 1872 for "willfully neglecting his official duties." He maintained his innocence and his first trial ended in a mistrial when a juror fell ill.