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Weed was known as “Boss” Weed and was extremely influential in Albany.

I guess so. He was the longtime Whig Party boss and everybody knew it.

But he didn't have cartoonist Thomas Nast making the masses think "Boss" was his first name the way Manhattan Democrat William Marcy Tweed did.

[Tax-chick]

“Boss Weed” and “Boss Tweed” could have been a vaudeville comedy team.

[colorado tanker]

In Colorado, nobody confuses weed with tweed. :-))