tammany

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Definition of tammany in English Turkish dictionary

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tammany hall

tammany salonu

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Definition of tammany in English English dictionary

The nickname of the New York County Democratic Party, until the success of reform elements in the 1970s

A style of corrupt democratic politics

Tammany Hall, a building near Union Square in New York City, formerly headquarters for the New York County Democratic Party

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Tammany Hall

Executive committee of the Democratic Party in New York City. The group was organized in 1789 in opposition to the Federalist Party's ruling "aristocrats." The Society of Tammany was incorporated in 1805 as a benevolent body; its name derived from a pre-Revolutionary association named after the benevolent Indian chief Tammanend. The group became identified with the city's Democratic Party. The makeup of the society was substantially altered in 1817 when Irish immigrants, protesting Tammany bigotry, forced their right to membership and benefits. Tammany later championed the extension of the franchise to white propertyless males. Nevertheless, the society's appeal to particular ethnic and religious minorities, the doling out of gifts to the poor, and the bribing of leaders of rival political factions, among them the notorious boss William Marcy Tweed, made the name Tammany Hall synonymous with political corruption. Its power was greatest in the late 19th and early 20th century; it declined in the 1930s under the reforms of Pres. Franklin D. Roosevelt and Mayor Fiorello La Guardia

tammany hall

a political organization within the Democratic Party in New York city (late 1800's and early 1900's) seeking political control by corruption and bossism

Turkish pronunciation

tämıni

Pronunciation

/ˈtamənē/ /ˈtæməniː/

Etymology

() Tamanend or Tammany was a chief of part of the Lenni-Lenape nation in the Delaware Valley who became a hero to the colonists and gave his name to organizations throughout the American colonies beginning in 1772. One was New York City's Society of St. Tammany, which became the New York County Democratic Party organization.