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14 unusual facts about Tammany Hall


1843 in Ireland

24 November - Richard Croker, politician in America and a leader of New York City's Tammany Hall (died 1922).

Arthur Levitt, Sr.

In 1961, he was the Tammany Hall regular candidate for the Democratic nomination for Mayor of New York City, but was defeated in the primary by incumbent Mayor Robert F. Wagner, Jr. who had broken with Tammany's leader, Carmine DeSapio.

Gair Affair

Snedden decried it as shameful and "worse than any Tammany Hall effort that has ever been made in the United States", and compared it with what he called the "very fine appointment" of Sir Garfield Barwick as Chief Justice of the High Court.

Homer Folks

He was elected to the New York City Board of Alderman as an anti Tammany member in 1897 and 1898, and was an unsuccessful candidate for the New York State Assembly in 1899.

Jerry Sherlock

He started his career as a buyer for S. Klein, On The Square (he would return to Union Square years later to house the New York Film Academy in the Tammany Hall building), before eventually leaving to establish his own design business in Tokyo and Hong Kong.

Majority Labor Party

Catts resigned from the Labor Party in 1922, blaming the loss of the 1922 state election on Irishism, Bolshevism and Tammanyism within the party.

Mr. Jack

Apparently at Hearst's request, he shifted his characters from bears to tigers, the emblem of Tammany Hall, creating The Little Tigers.

Régis Sénac

On April 10, 1876 he won the fencing championship of America in a contest held at Tammany Hall, New York, along with 500 dollars.

Tamina, Texas

James H. Berry promoted the community and named it after Tammany Hall, New York.

Tammany Hall NYC

Their name is derived from the historic New York political organization Tammany Hall.

Thomas F. Bayard

He was also reluctant to strike a deal with John Kelly of New York, whose Tammany faction of the Democratic party was currently at odds with the Tilden machine there.

Tontine Coffee House

On one occasion, French Revolutionists and supporters of the Tammany Hall movement scaled the coffee house and placed a French Liberty Cap on the roof.

Tony Pastor

The theater district was moving uptown to Union Square, however, and in 1881 Pastor took a lease on the former Germania Theatre on 14th Street in the same building that housed Tammany Hall.

Yank Adams

In 1879, Adams was chosen to be the official referee for the championship Collender Billiard Tournament held at Tammany Hall.


Francis Xavier Mancuso

Francis Xavier Mancuso (October 30, 1887 – July 8, 1970) was a leader of Tammany Hall and a judge for New York's Court of General Sessions.

John J. Scannell

John Jay Scannell (1841 – March 5, 1918) was a Tammany Hall politician who was the leader of the Eleventh Assembly District.

M. Louise Gross

Louise Gross (1884-1951) was secretary to New York City Tammany Hall district leader Thomas F. Foley, a close associate of Al Smith.

Municipal Ownership League

Hearst, a lifelong Democrat, formed the party chiefly as a means of toppling the Tammany Hall political machine, a faction of the Democratic Party which then dominated city politics, and specifically to defeat Tammany crony George B. McClellan, Jr., who was then running for a second term as Mayor of New York City.

Ogden Hoffman

After the removal of the federal deposits from the Second Bank of the United States in 1833, he abandoned Tammany Hall and the Democratic Party, and joined the Whigs.

Stanley H. Fuld

Fuld's specialty was developing new theories to prosecute racketeers, including Charles "Lucky" Luciano and James J. Hines, the Tammany Hall district leader.

Tamanend

A statue of a Native American, marked Tamanend, is shown in the lobby outside Tammany Hall in the film Gangs of New York.

Whyos

As Monk Eastman and the Five Points Gang came to prominence in the mid-1890s, many gangs began working with Tammany Hall providing considerable political protection.