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It honors Thomas F. (Big Tom) Foley (1852-1925), a prominent alderman, saloonkeeper, and Tammany Hall sachem.
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It is unlikely that the current battle will reach the viciousness of the scraps over Tammany Hall.
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He was a product of New York's Democratic machine, Tammany Hall, with no particular expertise in financial matters.
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Many party operatives, including the Tammany Hall delegation from New York, stayed in the still famous Brown Palace Hotel.
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" McCotter went on to say it was "ridiculous in these times for the U.S. taxpayers to help out a global Tammany Hall.
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Many northern Democrats were demoralized and there was open talk in places like Tammany Hall (the New York City Democratic Party) about the need to distance themselves from slavery.
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The 1876 contest was between two respected men, Samuel Tilden, the Democratic governor of New York, who had broken up the Tammany Hall corruption system, and Rutherford Hayes, the Republican governor of Ohio.
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In the early days of gun control, the Sullivan Act was pretty much explicitly passed by the Tammany Hall crowd to make New York safe for thugs, for whom ordinary armed citizens were making life dangerous.
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Mr. Koch got his start in New York City politics in the early 1960s as a reform Democrat, ousting Carmine DeSapio, the head of Tammany Hall, from his position as Democratic district leader in a party primary in Manhattan's Greenwich Village.
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For much of the 19th and 20th centuries the city's local politics were dominated by Tammany Hall, as the local Democratic organisation was known, which provided modest services for the poor in exchange for votes and at the cost of massive corruption.
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