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Washington, D.C. but telegraphed the capitol on March 2 that he was unable to locate him. Rynders reported that he had heard rumors that Russell was residing in Philadelphia but that he did not believe the report. He was among several Tammany political leaders who opposed the
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and, when a mob led by
Rynders followed Phillips, he and his followers were met by a group of well-armed men who defended the building. It was during this meeting that Phillips not only spoke out against slavery but also of the corruption of Tammany Hall.
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in 1857, he was attacked and pelted with rocks while attempting to persuade the warring gangsters to cease fighting. His reputation suffered considerably after this point and
Morrissey eventually replaced Rynders as head of the Sixth Ward.
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Shotwell, the last surviving child of real estate mogul John Shotwell and Phoebe Byron, in Washington, D.C. For a brief time during this period, he renamed his political organization the
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street gangs and was often requested by authorities to use his influence to cease rioting and gang-related violence which the police were unable to stop. He was a particularly important figure in civil disturbances against
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mother, Rynders first appeared in New York City during the mid-1830s, after a brief career as a professional gambler and pistol-and-knife fighter on the
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Tammany Hall, he established himself as one of the most politically skilled organizers in the city. He was said to have
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While also acting in his capacity as a U.S. marshal, he was responsible for the attempted capture of fellow
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on behalf of
Tammany Hall throughout the 1840s and 1850s before Tammany became an exclusively Irish-dominated institution.
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26th Annual Report of the
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The New York Tombs: Its Secrets and Its Mysteries. Being a History of Noted Criminals, with Narratives of Their Crimes
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Annals of Our Colonial Ancestors and Their Descendants, Or, Our Quaker Forefathers and Their Posterity
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clubhouse quickly became the political hub of the Sixth Ward and, through a heavy campaign of
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Sucker's Progress: An Informal History of Gambling in America from the Colonies to Canfield
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of the Southern District of New York. Although Rynders Street (now part of
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American businessman, sportsman, underworld figure and political organizer
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Although nominally loyal to Tammany for the majority of his career, his
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Incredible New York: High Life and Low Life of the Last Hundred Years
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This Was New York!: A Nostalgic Picture of Gotham in the Gaslight Era
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The Gangs of New York: An Informal History of the New York Underworld
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The Gangs of New York: An Informal History of the New York Underworld
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The Gangs of New York: An Informal History of the New York Underworld
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Letters from a Texas Sheep Ranch: Written in the Years 1860 and 1867
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The American Metropolis from Knickerbocker Days to the Present Time
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Rynders was involved in the successful presidential elections of
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Paddy Whacked: The Untold Story of the Irish American Gangster
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gangs to the cause of Tammany Hall and organize them into a
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Sutton, Charles; James B. Mix and Samuel A. Mackeever, ed.
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In early 1861, he was ordered by Chairman Morris to find
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Tammany: The Evolution of a Political Machine, 1789-1865
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Abby Hopper Gibbons: Prison Reformer and Social Activist
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691:. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1959. (pg. 119)
642:. New York: Souvenir Publishing Company, 1901. (pg. 68)
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American Civil War, going so far as to support Mayor
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of New York's Sixth Ward during the 1840s and 1850s.
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395:respectively, and was appointed by Buchanan as
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452:Rynders was portrayed in the historical novel
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790:Thirty Years of New York Politics Up-To-Date
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422:Rynders remained in politics, attending the
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785:. New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1938.
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491:. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1928. (pg. 5)
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148:securing his election
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