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| | Lalor, Cyclopaedia of Political Science, V.1, Entry 32, ALBANY REGENCY: Library of Economics and Liberty |
 | | ALBANY REGENCY, The (IN), the name given to the politicians who, from 1820 until about 1854-5, unofficially managed the machinery of the democratic party in New York. |
 | | Although, as has been said, several of these "graduated," the graduates were expected, whenever necessary for the success of the party and the regency, to return to the field of state politics. |
 | | About 1819-20, when the system of nominating conventions began to be used, the regency began to be recognized as a political factor, and as the business of nominations was further abandoned to these smaller and irresponsible bodies the regency obtained progressively a stronger control over the conventions and thus over the action of the party. |
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