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Thomas Collier Platt (July 15, 1833 – March 6, 1910), also known as Tom Platt and Easy Boss, was an American politician who was a two-term member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1873–1877) and a three-term U.S. Senator from New York in 1881 and 1897 to 1909.
6 mar 2017 · Thomas C. Platt, a federal judge in New York who warned the nation’s air traffic controllers in 1981 about severe penalties if they went on an illegal strike, and then fined their union $100,000...
Thomas Collier Platt (born July 15, 1833, Owego, N.Y., U.S.—died March 6, 1910, New York City) was a U.S. representative and senator from New York, who unwittingly furthered the rise to the U.S. presidency of Theodore Roosevelt (whom he called “a perfect bull in a china shop”).
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
9 feb 2007 · He immediately got into a fight with Senator Platt, the head of the Republicans, a powerful political boss on the state. History remembers Teddy Roosevelt. You have to be a knucklehead like me to...
Charles H. Levermore; Boss Platt and his New York Machine: a Study of the Political Leadership of Thomas C. Platt, Theodore Roosevelt, and Others. By Harol
- Charles H. Levermore
- 1924
Thomas Collier Platt (July 15, 1833 – March 6, 1910), also known as Tom Platt and Easy Boss, was an American politician who was a two-term member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1873–1877) and a three-term U.S. Senator from New York in 1881 and 1897 to 1909.
16 mag 2018 · On May 16, 1881, New York Senator Thomas Collier Platt earned the derogatory nickname “Me Too Platt” when he joined his political boss in resigning from the US Senate. It seems like Platt should have ended up a forgotten footnote to Gilded Age politics, but instead, his career illustrates the power of political machinery in our ...
