Dutch Voight, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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American mobster
Date of Birth: 18-Nov-1888
Place of Birth: Brenham, Texas, United States
Date of Death: 15-May-1986
Zodiac Sign: Scorpio 
About Dutch Voight
- Oscar Ernest "Dutch" Voight *Voigt was a German American gang leader in Galveston, Texas in the United States during the early 1900s.
- Voight was called Dutch for Deutsch meaning German.
- He, with Ollie Quinn, led the Beach Gang, one of the two gangs which controlled most of the Galveston underworld until the mid-1920s.
- As the Prohibition era began his gang came to be one of the dominant forces in the Galveston liquor trade. Voight ushered in the modern era of gambling on the island by establishing organized poker games in 1910.
- He and Quinn soon ran games all over the city.
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