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Tammany Ring by Thomas Nast; "Who stole the people's money?" / "'Twas him." James Watson, who was a county auditor in Comptroller Dick Connolly's office and who also held and recorded the ring's books, died a week after his head was smashed by a horse in a sleigh accident on January 21, 1871.
Thomas Nast's birth certificate issued under the auspices of the King of Bavaria on September 26, 1840 [1]. Thomas Nast (/ n æ s t /; German:; September 26, 1840 [2] – December 7, 1902) was a German-born American caricaturist and editorial cartoonist often considered to be the "Father of the American Cartoon".
He became notorious as a central figure in the ring that controlled Tammany Hall, and was depicted prominently in Thomas Nast's cartoons alongside Boss Tweed, Richard B. Connolly and A. Oakey Hall. With Tweed, he was a director of the Erie Railroad, which became "a gigantic highway of robbery and disgrace". [2]
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.
Politicians and people from various professions revolve around Croker, depicted as the sun in this 1898 cartoon from Puck.. Richard Croker was born in the townland of Ballyva, in the parish of Ardfield, six miles south of Clonakilty in County Cork on November 24, 1843, [2] son of Eyre Coote Croker (1800–1881) and Frances Laura Welsted (1807–1894). [3]
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 ]
The largest and most notorious political machine was Tammany Hall in New York City, led by Democrat Boss Tweed. [86] A Group of Vultures Waiting for the Storm to "Blow Over" – "Let Us Prey," a cartoon denouncing the corruption of New York's Boss Tweed and other Tammany Hall figures, drawn in 1871 by Thomas Nast and published in Harper's Weekly
In politics and government, a spoils system (also known as a patronage system) is a practice in which a political party, after winning an election, gives government jobs to its supporters, friends (), and relatives as a reward for working toward victory, and as an incentive to keep working for the party.