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  • Carmine De Sapio, Kingmaker and Last Tammany Boss, Dies (Party of Corruption Mourns Guiding Light)

    07/28/2004 6:03:53 AM PDT · by OESY · 17 replies · 1,087+ views
    The New York Times ^ | July 28, 2004 | JONATHAN KANDELL
    Carmine De Sapio, Political Kingmaker and Last Tammany Hall Boss, Dies at 95 [Yes, He Was A Democrat] Carmine G. De Sapio, the last boss of Tammany Hall, as the once-notorious Manhattan Democratic Party organization was known, died late yesterday afternoon at St. Vincent's Hospital in Manhattan, said his daughter, Geraldine A. De Sapio. He was 95 and lived in Greenwich Village. At his apogee in the 1950's, Mr. De Sapio was credited with handpicking Robert F. Wagner Jr. as mayor of New York City and W. Averell Harriman as governor of New York State. Pundits in Washington asserted that...