# Timothy Sullivan
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{{short description|American politician (1862–1913)}}
{{other people|Timothy Sullivan}}
{{Infobox officeholder
| name = Timothy D. Sullivan
| image = "Big Tim" Sullivan LCCN2014687996 (cropped).tif
| office = Member of the
[U.S. House of Representatives](/source/United_States_House_of_Representatives)
from [New York](/source/New_York_(state))
| constituency = {{ushr|NY|8|8th district}}
| term_start = March 4, 1903
| term_end = July 27, 1906
| predecessor = [Thomas J. Creamer](/source/Thomas_J._Creamer)
| successor = [Daniel J. Riordan](/source/Daniel_J._Riordan)
| constituency1 = {{ushr|NY|13|13th district}}
| term_start1 = March 4, 1913
| term_end1 = August 31, 1913
| predecessor1 = [Jefferson M. Levy](/source/Jefferson_Monroe_Levy)
| successor1 = [George W. Loft](/source/George_W._Loft)
| office2 = Member of the [New York Senate](/source/New_York_Senate)
| constituency2 = [9th district](/source/New_York's_9th_State_Senate_district) (1894–95)
[11th district](/source/New_York's_11th_State_Senate_district) (1896–1902)
| term_start2 = January 1, 1894
| term_end2 = December 31, 1902
| predecessor2 = Thomas F. Cunningham
| successor2 = [John C. Fitzgerald](/source/John_C._Fitzgerald)
| constituency3 = [12th district](/source/New_York's_12th_State_Senate_district)
| term_start3 = January 1, 1909
| term_end3 = December 31, 1912
| predecessor3 = [William Sohmer](/source/William_Sohmer)
| successor3 = John C. Fitzgerald
| state_assembly4 = New York
| district4 = 2nd [New York County](/source/New_York_County)
| term_start4 = January 1, 1887
| term_end4 = December 31, 1893
| predecessor4 = Thomas Maher
| successor4 = [Michael J. Callahan](/source/Michael_J._Callahan_(New_York_politician))
| birth_date = {{Birth date|1862|07|23}}
| birth_place = [Manhattan](/source/Manhattan), New York, U.S.
| death_date = {{death date and age|1913|8|31|1862|07|23}}
| death_place = [Bronx](/source/Bronx), New York, U.S.
| party = [Democratic](/source/Democratic_Party_(United_States))
|birth_name = Timothy Daniel Sullivan
|resting_place= [Calvary Cemetery, Queens](/source/Calvary_Cemetery%2C_Queens), New York
}}
'''Timothy Daniel Sullivan''' (July 23, 1862 – August 31, 1913) was a New York politician who controlled Manhattan's [Bowery](/source/Bowery%2C_Manhattan) and [Lower East Side](/source/Lower_East_Side) districts as a prominent leader within [Tammany Hall](/source/Tammany_Hall). He was known euphemistically as "Dry Dollar", as the "Big Feller", and later as "Big Tim" because of his physical stature. He amassed a large fortune as a businessman running vaudeville and legitimate theaters, as well as nickelodeons, race tracks, and athletic clubs.
Sullivan in 1911 pushed through the legislature the [Sullivan Act](/source/Sullivan_Act), an early [gun control](/source/gun_control) measure. He was a strong supporter of [organized labor](/source/organized_labor) and [women's suffrage](/source/women's_suffrage). The newspapers depicted Big Tim as the spider in the center of the web, mentioning his criminal activities and his control over gambling in the city. Welch says that "assigning the role of vice lord to Sullivan gave Tammany's enemies a weapon to be wielded in every municipal election between 1886 and 1912".[Richard F, Welch, ''King of the Bowery'', p. 107.]
==Personal life==
left|thumb|Larry Mulligan and Tim Sullivan (right)
He was born in the slum of [Five Points](/source/Five_Points%2C_Manhattan) to Daniel O. Sullivan, who emigrated from [County Kerry](/source/County_Kerry), Ireland, and his wife, Catherine Connelly (or Conley), from [Kenmare](/source/Kenmare), County Kerry. His father, a Union veteran of the [American Civil War](/source/American_Civil_War), died of typhus in October 1867 at age thirty-six, leaving his wife to care for their four children. Three years later, Catherine Sullivan married an alcoholic laborer of Irish descent named Lawrence Mulligan and had six children by him.[Records, Mulligan, Lawrence & Catherine, Transfiguration Church, 29 Mott Street, New York City, May 1869. See also: Schedule 1, "Inhabitants in the 6th District, 6th Ward in the County of New York," p. 11. Census, New York City 1870, 6th Ward.]
At age eight, Sullivan began shining shoes and selling newspapers on [Park Row](/source/Park_Row_(Manhattan)) in lower Manhattan. By his mid twenties, he was the part or full owner of six saloons, which was the career of choice for aspiring politicians. Sullivan attracted the attention of local politicians, notably Thomas "Fatty" Walsh, a prominent [Tammany Hall](/source/Tammany_Hall) ward leader and father of stage actress [Blanche Walsh](/source/Blanche_Walsh).
In 1886, Sullivan married Helen Fitzgerald. He gradually began building one of the most powerful [political machine](/source/political_machine)s, which controlled virtually all jobs and vice below 14th Street in Manhattan. His base was his headquarters at 207 Bowery. By 1892, Tammany Hall leader [Richard Croker](/source/Richard_Croker) appointed Sullivan leader of his assembly district of the Lower East Side.
In May 1910, Sullivan sailed to England on a boat with many social luminaries among his fellow passengers. One of them, [Alice Roosevelt Longworth](/source/Alice_Roosevelt_Longworth), wrote years later in her autobiography about Sullivan, calling him "a tall, well-set-up, smooth-shaven Irishman, who talked a blue streak in the voice and phraseology of the New York-Irish of the East Side...." In her judgment years later,[{{Cite book|last=Longworth|first=Alice Roosevelt|url=https://catalog.loc.gov/vwebv/holdingsInfo?searchId=17233&recCount=25&recPointer=7&bibId=1808081|title=Crowded hours|date=1980|publisher=Arno Press|isbn=978-0-405-12846-2|series=Signal lives|location=New York|page=176}}] Sullivan was "as straight and well-intentioned and genuinely sympathetic in his personal relations and humanitarian enterprises, as he was callous and corrupt politically."[{{cite book |last=MacNeil |first=Neil|date=1963 |title= Forge of Democracy: The House of Representatives|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3AmJAAAAMAAJ&q=%22timothy%22+%22sullivan%22+%22every+time+they+see+a+congressman%22 |location=New York, NY |publisher=David McKay Company |page=120}}]
He was again a member of the State Senate (12th D.) from 1909 to 1912, sitting in the [132nd](/source/132nd_New_York_State_Legislature), [133rd](/source/133rd_New_York_State_Legislature), [134th](/source/134th_New_York_State_Legislature) and [135th New York State Legislature](/source/135th_New_York_State_Legislature)s. In November 1912, he was elected to the [63rd United States Congress](/source/63rd_United_States_Congress) but, due to ill health, did not take his seat, and died a few months into his term.[{{cite book |last= Carlebach |first=Michael |date=2011 |title=Bain's New York: The City in News Pictures 1900-1925 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3Rr2lvoFsAQC&q=%22timothy%22+%22sullivan%22+%22congress%22+%221912%22&pg=PA179 |location=Mineola, NY |publisher=Dover Publications, Inc. |page=179 |isbn=978-0-4864-7858-6}}]
It could be said that Sullivan was one of the earliest political reformers, since he was aligned with women's rights activist [Frances Perkins](/source/Frances_Perkins) and sponsored legislation limiting the maximum number of hours women were forced to work, improving the conditions of stable and delivery horses and the [Sullivan Law](/source/Sullivan_Law), city gun-control legislation.[3Chapter 195, "An Act to Amend the [New York State] Penal Law in Relation to the Sale and Carrying of Dangerous Weapons." May 1911. See also: "Suffragists Cheer Big Tim Sullivan..." New York Times, March 31, 1912. C6. For a listing of Sullivan's legislative activity, see: New York Legislative Index, 1909-1912. (New York State Library, Albany)]
==Rise to power in Tammany Hall==
[[File:Dewey Theatre.jpg|thumb|right|Dewey Theatre, owned by Timothy D. Sullivan and George Krause and leased to [William Fox](/source/William_Fox_(producer)), who used the venue for vaudeville. Attendance averaged 9,000 patrons a day.[{{cite web|url=http://cinematreasures.org/theaters/21704|title=Dewey Theatre|work=Cinema Treasures|access-date=March 25, 2016}}]]]Along with his political and criminal activities, Sullivan was a successful businessman involved in real estate, theatrical ventures (at one point partnering with [Marcus Loew](/source/Marcus_Loew)), boxing and horseracing.[For background about Sullivan's theatrical interests see: {{cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/4742765/sullivan_and_krauss_to_open_dewey/|title=Plan for a 'Dewey Theatre'|work=New York Times|date=July 1, 1898|page=7|access-date=March 25, 2016|via=newspapers.com}} {{cite web|url=http://fultonhistory.com/Newspaper%2018/New%20York%20NY%20Morning%20Telegraph/New%20York%20NY%20Morning%20Telegraph%201903/New%20York%20NY%20Morning%20Telegraph%201903%20-%200405.pdf|title=For a New Theatre in Second Avenue|work=[New York] Morning Telegraph|date=January 26, 1903|page=7|access-date=June 23, 2013}} {{cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/4742554/sullivan_rto_open_the_eagle_theatre_in/|title=Sullivan's New Theatre|newspaper='New York Times|date=October 22, 1903|page=9|access-date=March 26, 2016|via=newspapers.com}} ''Variety'', March 13, 1914, 5; ''Variety'', March 27, 1914, 5; ''Variety'', April 3, 1914, 1; ''Variety'', December 14, 1907, p. 10. For in-depth coverage of Sullivan's boxing interests, see: Riess, Steven A. Riess. "Sports and Machine Politics in New York city, 1870-1920," in Making of America. ed. Donald Spivey. (Westport, CT. 1985)]
Along with various other Sullivans, Big Tim also branched out into popular amusement venues such as [Dreamland](/source/Dreamland_(Coney_Island%2C_1904)) in [Coney Island](/source/Coney_Island), where he installed a distant relative, Dennis, as the political leader.[Dennis, ("Flatnose Denny) was a brother of U.S. Rep. Christopher D. Sullivan. The former, a one-time police detective, was murdered on the [Coney Island boardwalk](/source/Riegelmann_Boardwalk) in June 1922, see "Dinnie" Sullivan Slain by Blackjack, New York Times, 21 June 1922, 1. For additional information on the Sullivan clan, see: "Little Tim Dead at Forty." New York Times, December 23, 1909. 1. See also: "Sullivan is Last of a Famous Line, New York Times, August 3, 1937; "Sullivans and Tammany." New York Times, August 6, 1942. Editorial] Sullivan, whose control extended to illegal [prizefights](/source/boxing) through the [National Athletic Club](/source/National_Athletic_Club), influenced the New York State Legislature to legalize boxing in 1896 before ring deaths and other scandals caused the law's repeal four years later.
Among other laws he helped pass was the [Sullivan Act](/source/Sullivan_Act), a state law that required a permit to carry or own a concealed weapon, which eventually became law on May 29, 1911. Upon first passage, the Sullivan Act required licenses for New Yorkers to possess firearms small enough to be concealed. Possession of such firearms without a license was a misdemeanor, and carrying them was a felony. However, with many residents unable to afford the $3 registration fee issued by the corrupt New York Police Department, his bodyguards could be legally armed while using the law against their political opponents.[Czitrom, Dan. Underworld and Underdogs: Big Tim Sullivan and Metropolitan Politics in New York, 1889-1913. Journal of American History. 78.2. (1991)]
He was extremely popular among his constituents. In the hot summer months, [tenement](/source/tenement) dwellers were feted to steamboat excursions and picnics to College Point in Queens or New Jersey. In the winter months, the Sullivan machine doled out food, coal and clothing to his constituents. On the anniversary of his mother's birthday, February 6, Sullivan dispensed shoes to needy tenement dwellers. The annual Christmas Dinners were a particularly notable event covered in all of the city papers.["Fed by Senator Sullivan: Three Thousand Bowery Lodging House Men his Guests." New York Times, December 26, 1899.] Although he had a loyal following, his involvement in organized crime and political protection of street gangs and vice districts remained a source of controversy throughout his career.
==Electoral fraud==
Sullivan was an expert in using electoral fraud to retain his power. In a quid pro quo arrangement, constituents voted the way that they were instructed. In return, they were the recipients of Tammany largesse which included coal in the winter, clambakes and outings in the summer, jobs on the city payroll and all-around assistance. In 1892 when his pct went 395 to 4 for [Grover Cleveland](/source/Grover_Cleveland) over [Benjamin Harrison](/source/Benjamin_Harrison) in the presidential election he said, "Harrison got one...more vote than I expected, but I'll find that feller!" His most common tactic, with no voter ID, was to use "repeaters." Here's how he described it, "When you've voted'em with their whiskers on you take'em to a barber and scrap off the chin-fringe. Then you vote'em again with side lilacs and a mustache. Then to a barber again, off comes the sides and you vote'em a third time with the mustache. If that ain't enough, and the box can stand a few more ballots, clean off the mustache and vote'em plain face. That makes every one of 'em good for four votes." (Rothstein by David Pietrusza. Pgs 53–55.)
==Involvement in criminal activity==
During the turn of the century, he developed contacts with many influential figures, including [Monk Eastman](/source/Monk_Eastman), [Paul Kelly](/source/Paul_Kelly_(criminal)), [Arnold Rothstein](/source/Arnold_Rothstein) and disgraced NYPD Lieutenant [Charles Becker](/source/Charles_Becker), who was able to obtain for the latter a high-ranking position on the New York police force in 1893.[Logan, Andy. Against the Evidence: The Becker-Rosenthal Affair. London: Weidenfeld, 1970]
A close associate of [Charles Francis Murphy](/source/Charles_Francis_Murphy), who succeeded the exiled [Richard Croker](/source/Richard_Croker) as head of Tammany Hall in May 1902, the two forced corrupt police chief [William Stephen Devery](/source/William_Stephen_Devery) out of Tammany's Executive Committee as part of Murphy's campaign to eliminate any direct links between vice districts and Tammany Hall.
However, Sullivan was allowed to keep his [kickbacks](/source/kickbacks) from the Lower East Side and [Chinatown](/source/Chinatown%2C_Manhattan) as a means of keeping him from becoming Murphy's political rival (he had used his considerable political influence from keeping Croker's reform group, the ''Committee of Five'', out of the Bowery only two years before). In exchange, Sullivan had to furnish gang leaders [Monk Eastman](/source/Monk_Eastman) and [Paul Kelly](/source/Paul_Kelly_(criminal)), amongst others, to commit [election fraud](/source/election_fraud) on behalf of Tammany Hall.[''New York Times'', September 17, 1903, p. 8; ''New York Times'', September 20, 1903, 1. See also: Humbert s. Nelli. The Business of Crime: Italian and Syndicate Crime in the United States. New York, 1976. 101-140]
At the time, it was widely known that Sullivan and his subordinates were active in a number of illegal activities, including prostitution, gambling and extortion. A number of these revelations came to light in the New York State [Lexow Committee](/source/Lexow_Committee) hearings as well as through the investigations of the Rev. [Charles Henry Parkhurst](/source/Charles_Henry_Parkhurst).[Clarence Lexow, Report and Proceedings of the Senate Committee Appointed to Investigate the Police Department of the City of New York, 5 vols. Albany, 1895. See also, Parkhurst, Charles Henry. My Forty Years in New York. New York: MacMillan, 1923]
==Later years, death and aftermath ==
Suffering from [tertiary syphilis](/source/tertiary_syphilis) during his later years, his health continued to deteriorate until he was judged mentally incompetent and finally committed to a sanitarium in 1912. According to the Incompetency hearings, Sullivan elicited paranoid delusions, believed he was being spied upon and his food was being poisoned.[New York State Supreme Court, "In the Matter of the Application for the Appointment of a Committee of the Person and Property of Timothy D. Sullivan." January 24, 1913] On January 12, 1913, the ''New York Sun'' reported in a prominent page two article that he was mourned after being committed, "beyond cure" (without naming illness), suffering from "religious mania".[New York Sun "[https://www.newspapers.com/image/207027692/?match=1&clipping%20id=151609566 BIG TIM MOURNED BY RICH AND POOR]" January 24, 1913]
After nearly a year, he managed to escape from his brother's house after eluding nurses on the early morning of August 31 (although other accounts claim he had escaped from orderlies after an all-night card game). Within a few hours, his body was found on the tracks in the Eastchester area of the Bronx, New York.{{citation needed | date=May 2024}}
Sullivan's family did not report him missing for more than 10 days, and his body was brought to and held at the local Fordham morgue. Finally, after a fortnight, Sullivan was classified as a vagrant and scheduled for burial in [Potter's Field](/source/Potter's_field) despite his tailored clothing and "TDS" diamond monogrammed cufflinks.{{citation needed | date=May 2024}}
Just before removal, his body was finally recognized by Police Officer Peter Purfield, who was assigned to the morgue detail. ''[The New York Times](/source/The_New_York_Times)'' later speculated that Sullivan might have been killed and placed on the tracks. In fact, the engineer of the train that struck Sullivan stated that he thought the body was already deceased. And, adding to the speculation of foul play, Thomas Reigelmann, the Bronx coroner and Tammany political appointee who signed the death certificate, failed to recognize the body of his longtime friend despite the lack of trauma to the decedent's face.[''New York World'', "Says Blackjack May have Killed Big Tim Sullivan," November 18, 1914, 1; ''New York Times'', September 10, 1913, 1; ''New York Times'', September 11, 1913, 4; ''New York Times'', September 14, 1913, 1; ''New York World'', September 10, 1913, 3. "Bureau to Identify Bodies Will be Established as a Result of Sullivan Case." ''New York Times''. September 27, 1913]
Sullivan's wake was held at his clubhouse, located at 207 Bowery, and over 25,000 people turned out for his funeral at St. Patrick's Old Cathedral, New York, on Mott Street. He was interred in [Calvary Cemetery, Queens](/source/Calvary_Cemetery%2C_Queens), New York.[Records of Calvary and Allied Cemeteries, Woodside, NY. Section 9, Plot 197, Graves 1-9. See also: [http://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/sullivan8.html#R9M0JEFW0], keyword: Sullivan, Timothy D.]
For the next seven or eight years, there was a protracted battle over Sullivan's estate, which by some estimates ranged as high as $2.5 million. After creditors were satisfied, the bulk of the assets went to Sullivan's full siblings, Patrick H. and Mary Anne, and half-brother Lawrence Mulligan. For several years after Big Tim's death, Patrick H. Sullivan attempted to maintain his late brother's political and criminal clout. However, he proved to be an ineffectual leader and withdrew from politics to pursue real estate ventures.["Depose (P.H.) Sullivan as Bowery Leader." ''New York Times'', February 16, 1916. 1.]
Sullivan had one child with his wife, Helen, a daughter who died in infancy. He did, however, father at least six illegitimate children, many with actresses affiliated with his theatrical ventures, two of whom were [Christie MacDonald](/source/Christie_MacDonald) and [Elsie Janis](/source/Elsie_Janis).[Aida Sullivan, rumored to be Big Tim's natural daughter, was formally adopted by the Sullivans from the New York Foundling Hospital in 1894. She ultimately received a $50,000 life insurance policy from the Sullivan estate. See: "Says She Will Sue: Miss Sullivan Asserts Big Tim Made a Will Providing for Her." ''New York Times'', September 18, 1913, 2. Sullivan had another daughter, Margaret Catherine, born to Margaret A. Holland, who received a $50,000 life insurance policy from his estate. See, New York World, December 10, 1913, 1; New York Tribune, December 10, 1913]
==In popular culture==
He was portrayed by [Joseph Sullivan](/source/Joseph_Sullivan_(actor)) in the 1914 [silent film](/source/silent_film) ''The Life of Big Tim Sullivan; Or, From Newsboy to Senator'',[{{Cite web|url=http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0004222/|title=The Life of Big Tim Sullivan; Or, from Newsboy to Senator (1914) - IMDb|via=www.imdb.com}}] one of the earlier people to be the subject of a biographical film. He was also a main character in Kevin Baker's novel ''[Dreamland](/source/Dreamland_(Kevin_Baker))'', about life in turn-of-the-century New York, set in part in the [Coney Island](/source/Coney_Island) amusement park of the same name.[''The Life of Big Tim Sullivan; Or, From Newsboy to Senator''. Gotham Film Co., 1914. Sullivan left no diaries and very few private letters. Autobiographical materials comes largely through his own statements in the press of his era.]
On film himself, Sullivan appeared in ''Actors' Fund Field Day'',[{{Cite web|url=http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0239211/|title=Actors' Fund Field Day (1910) - IMDb|via=www.imdb.com}}] a 1910 silent short film denoting an actors' fundraising. Sullivan more than likely knew many of the persons in the film.
A fictionalized account of some of Big Tim Sullivan's later years is featured in [Dreamland (Kevin Baker)](/source/Dreamland_(Kevin_Baker)), and he plays a minor role in [E. L. Doctorow](/source/E._L._Doctorow)'s novel [Ragtime](/source/Ragtime_(novel)).
==See also==
*[List of members of the United States Congress who died in office (1900–1949)](/source/List_of_members_of_the_United_States_Congress_who_died_in_office_(1900%E2%80%931949))
*[J. Raymond Jones](/source/J._Raymond_Jones)
==References==
{{reflist}}
==Further reading==
*Czitrom, Daniel. "Underworlds and Underdogs: Big Tim Sullivan and Metropolitan Politics in New York, 1889-1913." ''Journal of American History'' (1991) 78#2 [https://www.jstor.org/stable/2079533 in JSTOR].
*Harlow, A.F. ''Old Bowery Days: Chronicles of a Famous Street''. (1931).
*{{Cite journal
| first = Stuart N.
| last = Lake
| date = January 1929
| title = What Really Happened to 'Big Tim' Sullivan?
| journal = True Detective Mysteries
| volume = X
| issue = 4
| pages = 28–33, 66–70
| url = https://archive.org/details/true-detective-jan-1929/page/28/mode/2up
| access-date = June 22, 2022
}}
*MacIllwain, Jeffrey Scott. ''Organizing Crime in Chinatown: Race and Racketeering in New York City, 1890-1910''. Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland & Company, 2004. {{ISBN|0-7864-1626-2}}
*Dave Ranney, or Thirty Years on the Bowery - Autobiography of a Bowery Dweller, published in 1910, from Project Gutenberg
*Welch, Richard F. ''King of the Bowery: Big Tim Sullivan, Tammany Hall, and New York City from the Gilded Age to the Progressive Era'' (SUNY Press, 2009). {{ISBN|978-1-4384-3182-6}}
*''[https://archive.org/details/timothydsullivan01unit Memorial Addresses on the Life and Character of Timothy D. Sullivan]''. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office (1914).
==External links==
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*{{CongBio|S001061|name=SULLIVAN, Timothy Daniel|inline=1}}
*[http://www.tenement.org/encyclopedia/irish_tammany.htm Lower East Side Tenement Museum - "Big" Tim Sullivan]
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