Tweed was elected to the United States House of Representatives in 1852, but his two-year term was undistinguished. Tweed then became associated with the "Forty Thieves", the group of aldermen and assistant aldermen who, up to that point, were known as some of the most corrupt politicians in the city's history. He lost that election to the Whig candidate Morgan Morgans, but ran again the next year and won, garnering his first political position. The Seventh Ward put him up for Alderman in 1850, when Tweed was 26. However, fire companies were also recruiting grounds for political parties at the time, thus Tweed's exploits came to the attention of the Democratic politicians who ran the Seventh Ward. Pressure from Alfred Carlson, the chief engineer, got him thrown out of the crew. Tweed became known for his ax-wielding violence, and was soon elected the Big Six foreman. The competition could become so fierce, that burning buildings would sometimes be ignored as the fire companies fought each other. At the time, volunteer fire companies competed vigorously with each other some were connected with street gangs and had strong ethnic ties to various immigrant communities. 6, also known as the "Big Six", as a volunteer fire company, which took as its symbol a snarling red Bengal tiger from a French lithograph, a symbol which remained associated with Tweed and Tammany Hall for many years. Reilly, he and some friends organized the Americus Fire Company No. In 1848, at the invitation of state assemblyman John J. Tweed became a member of the Odd Fellows and the Masons, and joined a volunteer fire company, Engine No. Ticket to an 1859 "soiree" to benefit Tweed's Americus Engine Co. Skaden and lived with her family on Madison Street for two years. On September 29, 1844, he married Mary Jane C. He also studied to be a bookkeeper and worked as a brushmaker for a company he had invested in, before eventually joining in the family business in 1852. At the age of 11, he left school to learn his father's trade, and then became an apprentice to a saddler. Tweed's religious affiliation was not widely known in his lifetime, but at the time of his funeral The New York Times, quoting a family friend, reported that his parents had been Quakers and "members of the old Rose Street Meeting house". His grandfather arrived in the United States from a town near the River Tweed close to Edinburgh. The son of a third-generation Scottish chair-maker, Tweed grew up on Cherry Street. Tweed was born April 3, 1823, at 1 Cherry Street, on the Lower East Side of Manhattan. Unable to make bail, he escaped from jail once but was returned to custody. Tweed was convicted for stealing an amount estimated by an aldermen's committee in 1877 at between $25 million and $45 million from New York City taxpayers from political corruption, but later estimates ranged as high as $200 million. However, Tweed's greatest influence came from being an appointed member of a number of boards and commissions, his control over political patronage in New York City through Tammany, and his ability to ensure the loyalty of voters through jobs he could create and dispense on city-related projects. He was also elected to the New York State Senate in 1867. Tweed was elected to the United States House of Representatives in 1852 and the New York County Board of Supervisors in 1858, the year that he became the head of the Tammany Hall political machine. At the height of his influence, Tweed was the third-largest landowner in New York City, a director of the Erie Railroad, a director of the Tenth National Bank, a director of the New-York Printing Company, the proprietor of the Metropolitan Hotel, a significant stockholder in iron mines and gas companies, a board member of the Harlem Gas Light Company, a board member of the Third Avenue Railway Company, a board member of the Brooklyn Bridge Company, and the president of the Guardian Savings Bank. William Magear Tweed (April 3, 1823 – April 12, 1878), often erroneously referred to as William "Marcy" Tweed (see below), and widely known as " Boss" Tweed, was an American politician most notable for being the political boss of Tammany Hall, the Democratic Party's political machine that played a major role in the politics of 19th-century New York City and state.
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