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Richard Croker, Sr. (
November 24,
1843 –
April 29,
1922) was an
American politician, a leader of
New York City's
Tammany Hall.
Biography
He was born at
Blackrock, Ireland on
November 24,
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 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. He moved to
Harrison, New York by 1880, then he was the
New York City Fire Commissioner in 1883 and 1887, and city
Chamberlain from 1889 to 1890. After the fall of
John Kelly he became the leader of Tammany Hall, and for some time almost completely controlled that organization. As head of Tammany, Croker received
bribe money from the owners of
brothels,
saloons and illegal
gambling dens. He survived
Charles Henry Parkhurst's attacks on Tammany Hall corruption and became a wealthy man.
His greatest political success was his bringing about the 1897 election of
Robert A. Van Wyck as first mayor of the five-
borough "greater" New York, 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 1900 and the defeat of his mayoralty candidate,
Edward M. Shepard in 1901, he resigned from his position of leadership in Tammany and was succeeded by
Lewis Nixon. He retired to a country life in
England and
Ireland. In 1907 he won the
Epsom Derby with his race-horse Orby. He married
Beulah Benson Edmondson in 1914 when he was 71 years old.
He died in 1922 in
Ireland.
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