1.1b.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.2.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1a.1b.1b.1.1.1.4.1.1.1.3.1.1b.1.2a.1.2.1.1.1.1.1.1.2.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1a Richard Welstead Croker , Tammany Hall Boss* 
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1841, CORK, IRELAND |
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1922 |
TAMMANY HALL
Within the memory even of young men, TAMMANY HALL has been the synonym of all POLITICAL TRICKERY, in the vocabulary of popular criticism. TAMMANY HALL was held up as the worst example of BOSS RULE and POLITICAL CORRUPTION that it was possible to find in either of the PARTIES. Its very name became a stigma.
Shortly after the REVOLUTIONARY WAR the SOCIETY OF ST. TAMMANY, or COLUMBIAN ORDER, was organized as a patriotic society in NEW YORK CITY. Later it became notorious as a POLITICAL MACHINE. For nearly 150 years it has influenced the POLITICAL history of NEW YORK, both CITY and STATE, through the DEMOCRATIC PARTY.
WILLIAM MOONEY, a REVOLUTIONARY WAR SOLDIER, founded TAMMANY in 1789 in opposition to the SOCIETY OF THE CINCINNATI, an organization of officers. It was named for TAMMANY, an INDIAN CHIEF. To mock the aristocratic CINCINNATI it used INDIAN CEREMONIES.
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