Tammany Hall

Examples of Tammany Hall in the following topics:

• City Government and the "Bosses"

  • The Tammany Society, also known as the Society of St.
  • The society adopted many Native-American words and also their customs, going so far as to call its hall a wigwam.
  • Tammany Hall's electoral base lay predominantly with New York's burgeoning immigrant constituency, which often exchanged political support for Tammany Hall's patronage.
  • The patronage Tammany Hall provided to immigrants, many of whom lived in extreme poverty and received little government assistance, covered three key areas.
  • Lastly, Tammany Hall served as a social integrator for immigrants by familiarizing them with American society and its political institutions and by helping them become naturalized citizens.

• The Election of 1888

  • 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.

• Urban Politics

  • One of the most well-known machines was that of Tammany Hall in New York, long led by William Tweed, who was better known as "Boss Tweed."
  • In addition to rewarding supporters, members of the Tammany Hall machine saw themselves as defending New York City from the residents of upstate New York and from the New York state government, who saw New York city as a ready source of funds to benefit upstate New York.

• Politics in the Gilded Age

  • Perhaps the largest example of a political machine from this time period is Tammany Hall in New York City, led by Boss Tweed.
  • The halls of Congress were filled with tobacco smoke and spittoons were everywhere.
  • 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.

• Conclusion: The Successes and Failures of Progressivism

  • Henceforth, the spoils system survived much longer in many states, counties and municipalities, such as the Tammany Hall ring, which survived well into the 1930s when New York City reformed its own civil service.

• Garfield and Arthur

  • In 1869, he was appointed counsel to the New York City tax commission under an arrangement his friend Murphy made with William Marcy Tweed, the infamous Tammany Hall boss.

• Jackson's Appointments and Rivalries

  • The Tammany Hall ring survived well into the 1930s, until New York City reformed its civil service.

• The Campaign for Suffrage

  • Political machines, such as Tammany Hall in New York City, opposed it because they feared that the addition of female voters would dilute the control they had established over groups of male voters.

• Al Smith and the Election of 1928

  • It was a post appointed by the Tammany Hall organization, the Democratic political machine that played a major role in New York City and New York State politics.
  • While Tammany had gained an infamous name in the mid-19th century for graft and political corruption, Smith’s reputation remained untarnished despite owing much of his political success as a county sheriff, New York City alderman, state assemblyman, and finally governor to Tammany support.

• The Scurrilous Campaign

  • In the space of the three previous years, he successively had become the mayor of Buffalo and then the governor of the state of New York, cleaning up large amounts of Tammany Hall's corrupt political machinery.