George Washington Plunkitt of Tammany Hall

Urban machine politics was an extremely important element in the way life was in the early 1900’s. Urban Bosses were more powerful icons than most political (progressive reform) figures back in that era. William M. Tweed, Richard Croker, George Washington Plunkitt and many other men were important political urban bosses. They achieved their prominence by doing things for themselves and by doing things that were maybe not morally correct but also not illegal in the …showed first 75 words of 926 total…

…showed last 75 words of 926 total…and each of the two men told Plunkitt how much they wanted respectively. In return he asked them not to bid against him and he would give them the blocks for free. He bid $2.50 for all 250,000 blocks, no one bid against him and he g! ot all those blocks for a very low cost. Corruption can be beneficial because in Plunkitt and many other urban bosses cases it lead to particularly good things. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **Bibliography**