He even let Nelson head up a commission on the state constitution, though Tammany leaders warned he would regret it.

Members of both camps were wary of Kennedy because he seemed too close to old-time party bosses like Carmine De Sapio, the Tammany leader.

According to Harlan, the Tammany leader told Blaine "all is over," and it was.

"A Tammany leader is of no importance unless he is recognized as such or honored as such by elected officials," he said.

While Tweed, Hall and other Tammany leaders were Anglo, their power base rested largely upon Irish immigrants.

But if they mean that the Tammany leaders ain't got no education and ain't gents they don't know what they're talkin' about.

That really happened to Charles F. Murphy, a Tammany leader who started as a horsecar driver and owned several bars while building political power.

Foley was the challenger, not the incumbent; the Second already had numerous houses of prostitution already, as Divver, a longtime Tammany leader, was aware.

"Actually it was pressure from Carmine De Sapio, the Tammany leader."

A. Most accounts of the corrupt Tammany leader give his name as William Marcy Tweed (1823-78).