Today in NYC History: Lawyers Fight Back Against Tammany Hall (1870)
“Bench and bar settle deeper in the mud every year and every month. They must be near the bottom now.” – George Templeton, 1868. Late 1860s New York City was in the firm clutches of the Tammany Hall political machine, run at the time by the notorious Boss Tweed. Tweed operatives were prominently placed throughout…