- Born
- Died
- Birth nameGaetano Tomasso Lucchese
- Nickname
- "Three Fingers Brown"
- Height5′ 2″ (1.57 m)
- Tommy Lucchese was born on December 1, 1899 in Palermo, Sicily, Italy. He was married to Concetto Vassallo. He died on July 13, 1967 in Lido Beach, New York, USA.
- SpouseConcetto Vassallo(1927 - July 13, 1967) (his death, 1 child)
- When William O'Dwyer resigned as mayor of New York on 9/2/1950, he was succeeded by Vincent R. Impellitteri, who had been appointed to head the City Council at O'Dwyer's insistence. O'Dwyer chose Impellitteri at the behest of US Congressman Vito Marcantonio, who pushed for Impellitteri as a favor to Lucchese.
- Carlo Gambino's son, Tommy, a "capo" in the Gambino crime family, married Lucchese's daughter, Frances, in 1962.
- Helped Lucky Luciano establish The Commission, restructuring organized crime in New York City to the so-called "Five Families", after they took out their boss, Salvatore Maranzano, and his chief rival, Giuseppe Masseria.
- Worked in a factory to appease his law-abiding father until a 1915 accident took off his right thumb and forefinger. A policeman arresting him for grand theft auto gave him the nickname "Three Fingers Brown" after Mordecai Brown, who had lost parts of two fingers on his right hand due to a farm-machinery accident.
- The Lucchese organized crime family, which he ran from 1951-67, is named after him.
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