Platt, Thomas Collier

Platt, Thomas Collier

▪ United States senator

born July 15, 1833, Owego, N.Y., U.S.
died March 6, 1910, New York City
 U.S. representative and senator from New York, who unwillingly furthered the rise to the U.S. presidency of Theodore Roosevelt (whom he called “a perfect bull in a china shop”).

      Educated at Owego Academy and at Yale (1849–50), Platt entered banking and lumbering, served in the U.S. House of Representatives (1873–77), and became president (1880) of the United States Express Company.

      He first entered the Senate in March 1881. Two months later, both he and Roscoe Conkling (Conkling, Roscoe), Republican Party boss of New York state, resigned from the Senate to protest the refusal of Pres. James A. Garfield to accept their recommendations for appointments to federal positions in New York State. Platt had to wait more than 15 years to regain his seat. (He then served two full terms, 1897–1909.) Meanwhile, Conkling retired from politics, and Platt assumed control of the Republican machinery in New York.

      In 1898 Platt reluctantly accepted the candidacy for governor of the popular young reformer Theodore Roosevelt (Roosevelt, Theodore). Finding that he could not control Roosevelt, he contrived to eliminate him from state politics by persuading the Republican national convention in 1900 to nominate him for vice president. This maneuver backfired when the assassination of Pres. William McKinley elevated Roosevelt to the presidency in 1901. By the time of the next presidential election, Platt's power had begun a decline that he was unable to reverse.

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