Having whipped Mr. De Sapio in the primaries and thus come into control of Tammany Hall, they have changed the name to Chatham Hall.

Granted that the Tammany name and the Tammany tiger often were regarded as badges of political shame, the sachems of the Hall also have a few good marks to their credit.

Across the street was Tammany Hall, and next to it Tony Pastor's, where stars of the stage were born.

He unified the transit system ; directed the building of low-cost public housing, public playgrounds, and parks ; constructed airports ; reorganized the police force ; defeated the powerful Tammany Hall political machine ; and reestablished merit employment in place of patronage jobs.

Tammany Hall looked with alarm upon Kelly ’ s entrance into the campaign and tried to persuade him to withdraw his candidacy and throw his support behind Moran.

However, it has also been argued that powerful Tammany Hall boss Jimmy Hines was able to successfully get enough votes forged to get LaGuardia unseated in this election as well.

Walker and his Irish-run Tammany Hall were forced out of office by scandal and LaGuardia was determined to replace him.

In turn he gave FDR a showcase for New Deal achievement, helped defeat FDR's political enemies in Tammany Hall ( the Democratic party machine in Manhattan ).

Cleveland's blunt, honest ways won him popular acclaim, but they also gained him the enmity of certain factions of his own party, especially the Tammany Hall organization in New York City.

In New York, the Tammany Hall Democrats, after vacillating, decided that they would gain more from supporting a Democrat they disliked than a Republican who would do nothing for them.

The group, together with the political clubs such as Tammany Hall that were developing at the same time, played a major role in the development of the " spoils system ", a recognized procedure in national, state and local affairs.

* 1876 – Corrupt Tammany Hall leader William Magear Tweed ( better known as Boss Tweed ) is delivered to authorities in New York City after being captured in Spain.

Four years later, Talcott sold the Giants to Andrew Freedman, a real estate developer with ties to Tammany Hall.

He was the scourge of Boss Tweed and the Tammany Hall political machine.

In 1945, O ' Dwyer received the nomination of the Tammany Hall Democrats and easily won the mayoral election.

* November 23 – Corrupt Tammany Hall leader William Marcy Tweed ( better known as Boss Tweed ) is delivered to authorities in New York City after being captured in Spain.

** The Grand Sachem of Tammany Hall ( Boss Tweed ) is arrested.

* William M. Tweed serves his last year as the " Boss " of the Tammany Hall political machine in New York.

* William M. Tweed begins his 13-year term as " Boss " of Tammany Hall.

Unlike the election of 1884, the power of the Tammany Hall political machine in New York City helped deny Cleveland the electoral votes of his home state.

In the end, the Republicans were identified with the booming economy of the 1920s, whereas Smith, a Roman Catholic, suffered politically from Anti-Catholic prejudice, his anti-prohibitionist stance, and the legacy of corruption of Tammany Hall, with which he was associated.

He pursued Tammany Hall leaders known for their ties to gangsters, such as James Joseph Hines.

Fusion has the highest profile in New York, where it was used as a major weapon against Tammany Hall.

A lone pro-Hearst voice from New York City was that of William Devery, who had been expelled as a Tammany leader but still claimed strong influence in his own district.

After all, it goes back to the days in which sedition was not un-American, the days in which the Sons of St. Tammany conspired to overthrow the government by force and violence -- the British government, that is.

On the second ballot, Tammany threw its support behind Butler, but the rest of the delegates shifted to Cleveland, and he was nominated.

The Tammany bosses didn't think he was Mayor material, and they refused to nominate him as the Democratic candidate for the special election in November 1950, which instead went to highly regarded New York State Supreme Court Judge Ferdinand Pecora, who was also given the Liberal line.

A political reformer, he was a Bourbon Democrat who worked closely with the New York City business community, led the fight against the corruption of Tammany Hall, and fought to keep taxes low.

In May 1831, the phrase " silent majority " was spoken by Churchill C. Cambreleng, representative of New York state, before 400 members of the Tammany Society.

Washington Parish was formed in 1819 by splitting off from St. Tammany Parish.

In 1699, Pierre Le Moyne d ' Iberville, a French explorer, was the first European to visit the area of present-day St. Tammany Parish.

St. Tammany was originally inhabited by numerous Indian peoples, including the Colapissas, Bayou Goulas, Chickasaw, Biloxi, Choctaw and Pensacola nations ( although Frederick S. Ellis, in his book St. Tammany Parish: L ’ autre Côté du Lac, claims that the regionally prominent Choctaw tribe did not arrive in the area until after it had begun to be settled by Europeans ).

He created St. Tammany Parish and named it after the Delaware Indian Chief Tamanend ( c. 1628-1698 ), who made peace with William Penn and was generally renowned for his goodness.

Though the Causeway was completed in 1956 and linked suburban Metairie with western St. Tammany, growth in and around western St. Tammany towns like Mandeville, Covington and Madisonville only gathered momentum in the late 1960s.

While St. Tammany was sparsely populated and almost wholly rural in the 1950s, its population exceeded 200, 000 in the wake of Hurricane Katrina's landfall in 2005.

The union evolved over time, first espousing the views of Ely Moore, who was a Tammany politician who made moderate criticisms against aristocrats who were greedy and corrupt.

Cochecton was reportedly the home of Tammany, a Native American sage of the Lenape.

At the time, the Port Royal post office was located in Saint Tammany town, just across the Tuscarora Creek.

The election was won by Tammany Hall candidate Abram Stevens Hewitt by what many of George's supporters believed was fraud.

With the break-up of his empire, the corrupt and already weakened Tammany Hall was critically injured as it relied on Rothstein to reign in the street gangs thereby giving a facade to Tammany's importance with the legitimate interests of the city.

Among the nine Louisiana parishes ( counties ) named for " saints " ( see " List of parishes of Louisiana "), St. Tammany is the only one whose eponym is not a saint as recognized by the Roman Catholic Church, the ecclesiastical parishes of which formed the basis for civil parishes prior to statehood.

Public schools in Slidell are operated by the St. Tammany Parish Public Schools.

Although indebted to the Tammany Hall political machine, particularly to its boss, " Silent " Charlie Murphy, he remained untarnished by corruption and worked for the passage of progressive legislation.

A brief resurgence in Tammany power in the 1950s was met with Democratic Party opposition led by Eleanor Roosevelt, Herbert Lehman, and the New York Committee for Democratic Voters.

Several Tammany Hall officials affiliated with Hines and Luciano were also successfully prosecuted by Dewey as well.

The fact that DeSapio was of Italian descent also demonstrated that Tammany was no longer dominated by Irish-American politicians.

During DeSapio's reign, Costello was the main person who influenced the decisions made by Tammany Hall officials.

In 1961, Wagner won re-election by running a reformist campaign that denounced his former patron, DeSapio, as an undemocratic practitioner of Tammany machine politics.

The once mighty Tammany political machine, now deprived of its leadership, quickly faded from political importance, and by the mid-1960s it ceased to exist, its demise as the controlling group of the New York Democratic Party sealed when the Village Independent Democrats under Ed Koch wrested away control of the Manhattan party.

With the immigrant population came the political domination of the neighborhood by the Tammany Hall machine, as well as festering ethnic tensions: around 67 people died in a riot between Irish Catholics and Irish Protestants on July 12, 1871, which took place around 24th Street and Eighth Avenue.

One of the biggest urban scandals of the post-Civil War era was the corruption and bribery case of Tammany boss William M. Tweed in 1871 that was uncovered by newspapers.

Hylan became a judge in the Kings County ( Brooklyn ) county court and was in that position when he was tapped by Tammany Hall as a dark-horse candidate for Mayor, running as a Democrat, through the promotion of newspaper magnate William Randolph Hearst, who shared with him a desire for municipal ownership of utilities.

The New York State Assembly appropriated $ 3 million for the city to buy it, but this fell through when a newspaper reporter discovered that the plan was a graft scheme by Tammany Hall boss Richard Croker.

The Flatiron's other original tenants included publishers ( magazine publishing pioneer Frank Munsey, American Architect and Building News and a vanity publisher ), an insurance company ( the Equitable Life Assurance Society ), small businesses ( a patent medicine company, Western Specialty Manufacturing Company and Whitehead & Hoag, who made celluloid novelties ), music publishers ( overflow from " Tin Pan Alley " up on 28th Street ) and other miscellaneous concerns ( a landscape architect, the Imperial Russian Consulate and the Bohemian Guides Society ), as well as the offices of the Roebling Construction Company, owned by the sons of Tammany Hall boss Richard Croker.