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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—New YorkWilliam Marcy TWEED
(1823-1878)
TWEED, William Marcy, a
Representative from New York; born in New York City April 3, 1823;
completed preparatory studies; learned the trade of chair maker;
alderman in New York City in 1852 and 1853; elected as a Democrat
to the Thirty-third Congress (March 4, 1853-March 3, 1855);
unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1854 to the Thirty-fourth
Congress; school commissioner in 1856 and 1857; member of the board
of supervisors for New York County in 1858; defeated as the peace
candidate for sheriff in 1861; deputy street commissioner
1861-1870; elected to the State senate in 1867 and 1869, serving
four years; again elected in 1871, but was not permitted to take
his seat; commissioner of the department of public works in 1870;
tried in 1874 on charges of official embezzlement, found guilty,
and sentenced to twelve years’ imprisonment; escaped in
December 1875 and was captured in Spain; brought back to the United
States on a man-of-war; again confined in prison in New York City
from November 23, 1876, until his death, April 12, 1878; interment
in Greenwood Cemetery, Brooklyn, N.Y.
Bibliography
Hershkowitz, Leo. Tweed’s New York: Another Look.
Garden City, N.Y.: Anchor Press-Doubleday, 1977; Ashby, Ruth.
Boss Tweed and Tammany Hall. San Diego, Calif.: Blackbirch
Press, 2002.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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