An Autobiography · Character
Joe Murray
A First Avenue Irish Democrat turned Republican enforcer, whose gangland loyalty and rough integrity gave the young assemblyman his first real education in machine politics.
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Also known as Joe Murray, Joe, Joseph Murray
First appearance: iii practical politics
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Co-owner of the Chimney Butte ranch; later became Postmaster at Medora.
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Murray rises from barefoot immigrant boy to leader of a Tammany gang, then swings his followers to the Republicans out of sheer personal vengeance. He becomes Roosevelt's early political mentor, teaching by example the…
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