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CROKER, RICHARD (1843 )

This article appears in Volume V07, Page 482 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: CRE-DAH
CROKER, RICHARD (1843 ) , American politician, was born at Blackrock, Ireland, on the 24th of November 1843. He was taken to the United States by his parents when two years old, and was educated in the public schools of New
York
 
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City, where he eventually became a member of Tammany
Hall
  and active in its politics. He was an alderman from 1868 to 1870, a
coroner
  from 1873 to 1876, a fire
commissioner
  in 1883 and 1887, and city chamberlain from 1889 to 189o. After the fall of John Kelly he became the leader of Tammany
Hall
  (q.v.), and for some time almost completely controlled the organization. His greatest political success was his bringing about the election of Robert A. van Wyck as first mayor of greater New
York
  in 1897, and during van Wyck's administration
Croker
  is popularly supposed to have dominated completely the government of the city. After
Croker
 's failure to " carry " the city in the presidential election of 190o and the defeat of his mayoralty candidate, Edward M. Shepard, in 1901, he resigned from his position of leadership in Tammany, and retired to a country life in England and Ireland. In 1907 he won the Derby with his race-horse Orby.


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