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US politician. A Democrat, he was governor of New York 1874–76, elected on a reform ticket. He received the Democratic presidential nomination 1876, and although he received a plurality of popular votes, the 1877 electoral college awarded the majority of electoral votes to Rutherford B Hayes.

Born in New Lebanon, New York, Tilden was educated at Yale and New York universities, and became a barrister 1841.

As chair of the New York State Democratic committee 1866–74, he campaigned against the Tammany Hall Organization and its leader, William ‘Boss’ Tweed.

Tilden, Samuel Jones

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1814–86, American political figure, Democratic presidential candidate in 1876, b. New Lebanon, N.Y. Admitted to the bar in 1841, Tilden was an eminently successful lawyer, with many railroad companies as clients. He became a strong partisan of Martin Van Buren and the Barnburners in New York Democratic politics. Unlike other Free-Soil Democrats of the 1850s (see Free-Soil party ), he did not join the new Republican party and later disapproved of the Civil War. As state Democratic chairman after 1866 he sought reform and gathered much of the evidence of corruption that broke the notorious Tweed Ring (see Tweed, William Marcy ). Elected governor of New York (1874), he further enhanced his reputation for reform by his successful attack on the corrupt “Canal ring,” which made illegal profits on repair and extension of the state canal system. Tilden thus became the outstanding Democrat in the nation, and in 1876 his party nominated him for President. Rutherford B. Hayes was his Republican…
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(born Feb. 9, 1814, New Lebanon, N.Y., U.S.—died Aug. 4, 1886, Greystone, N.Y.) U.S. politician. He was a leader of New York’s Democratic Party, and, as state party chairman (1865–75), he effected the overthrow of the Tammany Hall boss William Magear Tweed . As governor (1875–76) he continued his…
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(b. 1814–d. 1886) presidential candidate Samuel Jones Tilden lost one of the most controversial presidential elections in U.S. history when Rutherford B. Hayes defeated him in 1876. He was also one of the leading reformers of the Democratic Party in the second half of the 19th century and an…
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