John Morrissey
![John Morrissey, during his time in politics, circa 1870s](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/df/JohnMorrissey_%281%29.jpg)
He was born in 1831 in Ireland. His parents moved to New York State when he was a young child. In the early 1850s, he went to San Francisco at the time of the California Gold Rush. In California, he became a bare-knuckle boxer and on his return to New York, he challenged and defeated "Yankee Sullivan", who was then recognized as the American boxing champion. He became a professional gambler, owning gambling houses in New York City in the 1850s and 1860s. He emerged as a powerful politician and a U.S. Congressman from New York, between 1867 and 1871, backed by Tammany Hall. However, he later fell out with the Tammany Hall political machine and became Democratic State Senator for New York between 1876 and 1878, running as an anti-Tammany candidate. Provided by Wikipedia
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5by Riley M. Bove, Gillian Rush, Chao Zhao, William Rowles, Priya Garcha, John Morrissey, Adrian Schembri, Titi Alailima, Dawn Langdon, Katherine Possin, Adam Gazzaley, Anthony Feinstein, Joaquin AngueraGet full text
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6by Egle Cekanaviciute, Anne-Katrin Pröbstel, Anna Thomann, Tessel F. Runia, Patrizia Casaccia, Ilana Katz Sand, Elizabeth Crabtree, Sneha Singh, John Morrissey, Patrick Barba, Refujia Gomez, Rob Knight, Sarkis Mazmanian, Jennifer Graves, Bruce A. C. Cree, Scott S. Zamvil, Sergio E. BaranziniGet full text
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