Tammany Society of New York

Date: 12 May 1789 to 1961
Location: New York, New York, United States

The Tammany Society was founded 12 May 1789 as part of a wider network of Tammany Societies seeking to form a club for "pure Americans." The ideal was to create an American identity separate from European culture. The first society was formed in Philadelphia. The society went by several other names: Society of St. Tammany, the Sons of St. Tammany, Columbian Order, but the most remembered is Tammany Hall. The name was taken from a leader of the Lenape Native American Tribe, Chief Tamanend "Tammany" Tamanend who was at the time called the Patron Saint of America because he represented peace and amity and had assumed mythic status as an icon for peaceful political negotiation. Other Native American verbage was adopted including Grand Sachem and meeting halls called a wigwam. The society was part of the Democratic Party and the purpose included assisting the emerging, ethnically diverse, middle class, but at it's core, the majority of players were Irish Catholics. The society earned the loyalty of the business community by cutting through red tape, for a reasonable price, in order to control New York City politics and that of New York State as well. Each city ward had a ward boss or heeler who served as a local vote gatherer and provider of patronage.

This succession box can be used for the Grand Sachems:

{{Succession box | title = Carmine G. DeSapio <br />{{Image|file=Tammany Society of New York.jpg|size=100px}}Grand Sachem<br />of Tammany Hall| years = 1949-1961 | preceded-text = Following | before = Hugo E. Rogers | succeeded-text = Followed by | after = End of Tammany Hall's existence }}

Following Hugo E. Rogers

Carmine G. DeSapio Grand Sachem of Tammany Hall 1949-1961

Followed by End of Tammany Hall's existence

Sachems of Tammany Hall

1797-1804	Aaron Burr
1804-1814	Teunis Wortmann
1814-1817	George Buckmaster
1817-1822	Jacob Barker
1822-1827	Stephen Allen
1827-1828	Mordecai M. Noah
1828-1835	Walter Bowne
1835-1842	Isaac Varian
1842-1848	Robert H. Morris
1848-1850	Isaac V. Fowler (10014?)
1850-1856	Fernando Wood
1857-1858	Isaac V. Fowler
1858	Fernando Wood
1858-1859	William M. Tweed and Isaac V. Fowler
1859-1867	William M. Tweed and Richard B. Connolly
1867-1871	William M. Tweed
1872	John Kelly and John Morrissey
1872-1886	John Kelly
1886-1902	Richard Croker
1902	Lewis Nixon
1902	Charles F. Murphy, Daniel F. McMahon, and Louis F. Haffen
1902-1924	Charles F. Murphy
1924-1929	George W. Olvany
1929-1934	John F. Curry
1934-1937	James J. Dooling
1937-1942	Christopher "Christy" D. Sullivan
1942	Charles H. Hussey
1942-1944	Michael J. Kennedy
1944-1947	Edward V. Loughlin
1947-1948	Frank J. Sampson
1948-1949	Hugo E. Rogers
1949-1961	Carmine G. DeSapio