William M. Tweed

William M. Tweed

William Magear "Boss" Tweed (April 3, 1823 – April 12, 1878) was an American politician most notable for being the political boss of Tammany Hall, the Democratic Party's political machine that played a major role in the politics of 19th-century New York City and State. At the height of his influence, Tweed was the third-largest landowner in New York City, a director of the Erie Railroad, a director of the Tenth National Bank, a director of the New-York Printing Company, the proprietor of the Metropolitan Hotel, a significant stockholder in iron mines and gas companies, a board member of the Harlem Gas Light Company, a board member of the Third Avenue Railway Company, a board member of the Brooklyn Bridge Company, and the president of the Guardian Savings Bank.Tweed was elected to the United States House of Representatives in 1852 and the New York County Board of Supervisors in 1858, the year that he became the head of the Tammany Hall political machine. He was also elected to the New York State Senate in 1867. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of William M. Tweed has received more than 2,841,983 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). William M. Tweed is the 13,548th most popular politician (down from 12,877th in 2019), the 6,524th most popular biography from United States (up from 7,013th in 2019) and the 403rd most popular American Politician.