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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]
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.
The Tweed Courthouse was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1974 under the name "Old New York County Courthouse". [ 3 ] [ 111 ] The courthouse was named a National Historic Landmark two years later, due to its associations with William Tweed's legacy, [ 3 ] [ 138 ] and it was added to the New York State Register of Historic ...
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 "Boss" Tweed was a local politician and head of Tammany Hall, the name given to the Democratic Party political machine that played a major role in New York City politics from the 1790s to the 1860s. After being arrested for bilking the city out of millions of dollars, Tweed jumped bail and was later apprehended in Spain.
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 ...
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.
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)