| http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#value | - From 1823 to 1829 Marcy was comptroller of the state, an office then especially important on account of the large expenditures for internal improvements, and during this period he became the leading member of the famous Albany Regency, a group of able Democratic politicians who exerted a powerful influence throughout the state by their control of the party patronage and machinery.
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