Ashbel P. Fitch: Champion of Old New York - David Remington - Google Books

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The concept of an "honest Tammany man" sounds like an oxymoron, but it became a reality in the curious career of Ashbel P. Fitch, who served New York City as a four-term congressman and a one-term city comptroller during the late nineteenth century.…