It was known that when Nucky prospered, everyone prospered in his organization and the city. He wore tailored suits, owned the entire ninth floor of the Ritz-Carlton Hotel, and he owned a chauffeur-driven $14,000 1920 powder blue Rolls-Royce Silver Ghost which was his trademark car. Johnson was known to be a very well dressed and nice man who would rarely say no. Johnson also held several other jobs, including: Atlantic County Treasurer (1914–1941), County Tax Collector, publisher of a weekly newspaper, bank director, president of a building and loan company, and director of a Philadelphia brewery. After the conviction of Kuehnle on corruption charges in 1911, the younger Johnson became boss of the organization. In 1909, he became secretary of the very powerful Atlantic County Republican Executive Committee.

The younger Johnson was eventually elected sheriff in 1908. Nucky became undersheriff in 1905 while his father was sheriff of Atlantic City. Smith Johnson's son Enoch Lewis 'Nucky' Johnson was born in 1883. Gardner (1845-1921), and Mays Landing sheriff and Atlantic City undersheriff Smith E. Scott (1854-1907) and Congressman John J. Origins Early history īefore the rise of German American political boss Louis 'Commodore' Kuehnle and Scots-Irish American treasurer Nucky Johnson, Atlantic City's government was run by a three-man group, including: Atlantic County Clerk Lewis P. Its boss, Enoch 'Nucky' Johnson, coordinated the Organizations's bootlegging, gambling, racketeering, and prostitution activities. Nucky Johnson's Organization was a corrupt political machine based in Atlantic City, New Jersey that held power during the Prohibition era. Racketeering, illegal gambling, prostitution, bootlegging, number writing, bribery, bookmaking, police corruption, political corruption, extortion, money laundering, smuggling, and drug traffickingĬharlie Luciano, Johnny Torrio, Benny Siegel, Frank Hague, Walter Evans Edge, and Arnold Rothstein Enoch 'Nucky' Johnson (second from right) and Alphonse 'Scarface' Capone (third from right) this picture has also been proven to be photoshop on the boardwalk during the Atlantic City Conference

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