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James J Walker Research Paper

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James J Walker is a man that is put down in history as one of New York City’s mayors. Still James J Walker had a darker side to him that the public didn’t witness. James J Walker better known as Jimmy Walker was born June 19, 1881. A young boy that grew up in poverty, not being a great student, and dropped out of college later was graduated from New York Law School in 1904 and later went into politics and joined the State Senate. After many years in the Senate, Jimmy set his sights in on the 1926 elections for Mayor of New York. Jimmy was set out with a plan to win this election so he went in search of the guidance of Alfred E. Smith who was the governor at the time. Smith was a great supporter of Walker because of the fact that Walker supported mostly all of Smith’s ideas of opposing prohibition, …show more content…

The Department of Sanitation brought hospitals together, improved many parks and playgrounds and even managed to start the construction of the subways systems and was able to keep subway prices at a low price at five cents. Jimmy Walker was doing great things to improve New York but who would’ve guessed that Jimmy was a corrupted mayor with his power as …show more content…

The case was like any other, but a surprise witness played a big role in the case. Vivian Gordon, informed the investigators women were falsely arrested for prostitution by the New York Police Department, for doing this the police officers received extra money on their usual pay checks. After Vivian testified in court she was randomly found dead in a park in the Bronx, New York. The death of Vivian Gordon would show the people of New York that corruption can lead to horrible and unchangeable acts and also Walker could most likely be linked back to

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