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The Metropolitan Street Railway System (New York)
Page entitled : W. C. Whitney marriage to Flora
Payne
Content of this page is about :
William Collins Whitney's marriage to Flora Payne, social ascent and early
career in politics and public office
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William Collins Whitney
took the anti-Tammany path in New York’s Democratic party, notably by
co-founding the Young Men’s Democratic Club in 1871, he got noticed by elder
men, who then wielded inestimable power and commanded great wealth. Samuel
Jones Tilden, the corporation lawyer who specialized on railroad
reorganization and thereby built a huge fortune, made him his lieutenant and
political protégé. In 1872, Whitney tried to get elected
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