‘BOSS’ CROKER AND TAMMANY HALL

Reporting on Croker’s death, the Boston Daily Globe noted that a ‘boss’ was a ‘self-appointed middleman’ who ‘set up other men for the empty honour of being mayor’. Tammany began as a fraternal society in New York in 1789, later becoming the city’s foremost political machine. Associated with corruption, vote-buying and jobbery in the era ... Read more

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