William M. Tweed was a boss of a political machine. Tweed was a very infamous political boss who had immense control over the powerful Democratic machine in the New York city. He was born on 3rd of April in the year 1823 and died on 12th of April in the year 1878.
William M. Tweed was a boss of a political machine.
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William Magear "Boss" Tweed was an American politician. He was political boss during the 19th century for Tammany Hall, an influential party apparatus for the Democratic Party in New York.
William M. Tweed was convicted of stealing between $ 25 million and $ 45 million from New York's taxpayers, through corruption. In later estimates of the corruption that Tweed was behind, the sum was in fact around $ 200 million.
