Thomas C. Platt
 Thomas Collier Platt (July 15 1833 – March 6 1910) was a two-term member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1873–1877) and a three-term U.S. Senator from New York in the years 1881 1897 to 1909 — is best known as the political boss of the Republican Party in New York State in the late 19th Century and early 20th Century.