GOVERNOR JOHN THOMPSON HOFFMAN - AUTOGRAPHED SIGNED CHECK 03/31/1868 CO-SIGNED BY: RICHARD B. CONNOLLY, JOSEPH H. TOONE - HFSID 320498

NEW YORK CITY GOVERNMENT: JOHN THOMPSON HOFFMAN, RICHARD B. CONNOLLY, and JOSEPH H. TOONE
Hoffman, as Mayor of New York, and Connolly, as City Comptroller, sign a $145.84 salary check to Deputy City Clerk Joseph H. Toone, who endorses it.
Check signed: "John T. Hoffman" as Mayor, "Richard B. Connolly" as Comptroller, 8x3¾. New York, N. Y. 1868 March 31. Check #1257, drawn on the Salaries Account of the County Treasurer at the National Broadway Bank, payable to Joseph H. Toone for $145.84. Payment is for salary as Deputy County Clerk, January 1-15, 1868. Also signed by an unidentified clerk of the Board of Supervisors. Endorsed on verso: "Joseph H. Toone". JOHN THOMPSON HOFFMAN (1828-1888), previously a state judge, was Mayor of New York City (1866-1868) and Governor of New York (1869-1872). Although there was no evidence of wrongdoing by Hoffman, his friendship with several members of the Tweed gang tarnished his reputation at the end of an otherwise successful tenure. DeWitt Clinton in the 1820s was the first Mayor of New York to become Governor; Hoffman was the second. No one since has held both offices. While Hoffman was personally honest, the same could not be city of RICHARD B. CONNOLLY (1810-1880) was New York's appointed City Comptroller (1867-1871). A member of the notoriously corrupt "Tweed Ring" of Tammany Hall sachem William M. Tweed, he was arrested a week after leaving office, but jumped bail and fled the country, dying in France a decade later. Deputy County Clerk Joseph H. Toone also served for a time as New York City Surveyor. Lightly toned around edges. Cancellation marks. Corners lightly creased. Otherwise, fine condition.