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TIL that FDR led an insurgency against NY's Tammany Hall machine when he became state senator in 1910, costing him the US Senate primary in 1914. Only after he became NY Governor in 1928 could he bring corruption investigations, ending Tammany's more than a century of control over the NY Dem Party.

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