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{{Infobox political party
| name = Platt machine
| leader = • [[Thomas C. Platt]]<br>• [[Benjamin B. Odell, Jr.]]<br>• [[Theodore Roosevelt]]
| foundation =
| ideology =
| position = [[Big tent]]
| country = the United States
| dissolution = 1903
| predecessor =
| footnotes =
| merged =
| national = [[History of the Republican Party (United States)|Republican Party]]
}}
The '''Platt machine''' was a United States [[political organization]] and coalition of [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican Party]] members in [[New York (state)|New York]] which exerted heavy influence over the state's politics during the [[Gilded Age]]. The organization's leadership was maintained by U.S. senator [[Thomas C. Platt|T. C. "Tom" Platt]], its "easy boss."<ref name=tcplattbio>[https://www.encyclopedia.com/people/history/us-history-biographies/thomas-collier-platt Thomas Collier Platt]. ''Encyclopedia.com''. Retrieved March 16, 2022.</ref>
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