HONEST GRAFT: THE WORLD OF GEORGE WASHINGTON PLUNKITT

George Washington Plunkitt was born in 1842 in Nanny Goat Hill which was a poor Irish shantytown on the upper west side of Manhattan. George Washington Plunkitt was a senator in New York during the turn of the 19th Century to the 20th Century. He was very successful in politics, and at one time he had four offices at once and collected salaries from three of them. George Washington Plunkitt was also the district leader of The New York’s Tammany Hall. The New York’s Tammany Hall was the premier symbol of Irish-American political power in the U.S. William Mooney, a soldier during the American Revolution and a prominent anti-federalist in New York City in 1789, established Tammany Hall. Tammany Hall was the most powerful urban political machine in U.S. History. Most of the members of the Tammany Hall were Irish-American workingmen and craftsman. Many people viewed Plunkitt as a very dishonest politician.
Plunkitt always stated that, “Everybody is talking these days about Ta...