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Biography of Thomas Collier Platt
Name: Thomas Collier Platt
Birth Date: July 15, 1833
Death Date: March 6, 1910
Place of Birth: Owego, New York, United States
Nationality: American
Gender: Male
Occupations: senator
Thomas Collier Platt
Thomas Collier Platt (1833-1910), U.S. Senator and Republican party leader in New York State, personified machine politics of the late 19th century.Thomas Platt was born on July 15, 1833, in Owego, N.Y., the son of a lawyer. Thomas entered Yale in 1849, but illness forced him to withdraw. He married in 1852 and during the next decade established a drugstore (which quickly became a center for county political activity), speculated in timber lands, and became president of a local bank.Platt held local offices during the 1860s, but his political career began in earnest when, in 1870, he organized the "southern tier" of upstate New York for U.S. senator Roscoe Conkling, then the state's political captain. From 1874 to 1878 Platt served in the U.S. House of Representatives, and in 1881 he was elected to the Senate. A dispute over patronage with the forces of President James Garfield culminated a few months later in …showed first 150 words…
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…showed last 150 words…shelve Roosevelt by arranging to nominate him as vice president. The plan failed doubly when President William McKinley's assassination made Roosevelt president, and Odell displayed an unsuspected progressivism.Platt died in New York City on March 6, 1910. Although he never practiced the grosser forms of political corruption, his death spurred widespread attack on the machine politics with which he was popularly associated. Associated Organizations Further Reading The Autobiography of Thomas Collier Platt (1910), compiled and edited by L. J. Lang, combines fact, fiction, and narrative; despite inaccuracies, it illuminates his methods and motives. A careful study of Platt's political techniques is Harold F. Gosnell, Boss Platt and His New York Machine (1924). DeAlva S. Alexander, Four Famous New Yorkers (1923), relates Platt's career to New York politics. G. Wallace Chessman, Governor Theodore Roosevelt (1965), examines Platt's relation with Roosevelt between 1898 and 1900.Platt, Thomas Collier, The autobiography of Thomas Collier Platt, New York, Arno Press, 1974, c1910.
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