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Tammany: 1789-1928 Tammany Hall; The Organization; and the Sway of the Bosses By Allan Frankin
Originally published 1928 |
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the operations of several lotteries which he ran behind the figurehead of his brother Benjamin. In the fall of 1848 he capped his swift but successful career of combination business and swindling deals by outfitting one of the first ships to carry supplies to the gold seekers in California and, through the friendliness of a district attorney who postponed prosecution until the Statute of Limitations had expired by one day, by cheating his former partner Edward E. Marvine out of $8,000. The following years, thirty-seven years old, Fernando Wood retired from business to devote his exceptional talents exclusively to politics.
With plenty of money, although Fernando Wood was of the type who never could have enough of that commodity, he centered his ambition at first on seeking power and position rather than pelf. Mayor of the City of New York, Governor of New York State, President of the United States was the shining path that unrolled before the mind's eye of Fernando Wood.
Ready to his hand he found an organization which was firmly entrenched in the political life of the city from which he proposed to start his ambitious climb. Tammany Hall had abandoned unequivocally its ioo per cent American pretensions and, to the influence of the saloon as a meeting place and point of contact with the electorate to
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