Nicholas J. Hayes

Nicholas J. Hayes , also known as Nick Hayes, was a politician from New York City and one of the powers of the Democratic Partys Tammany Hall political machine foryears. His political power base was the 28th Assembly District in lower East Harlem. He served as Fire Commissioner of New York City two times.

Nick Hayes was born in 1858 in Troy, New York of Irish parents. The family later moved to New York, where Hayes was educated in St. Francis Xaviers School. As a boy he had several odd jobs. He worked for the pharmaceutical company of McKesson amp Robbins in Fulton Street, then he became a grocers clerk and later a clerk in a tea house.

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