But, soon Boyd started to move up to the chain of command in corrupt Atlantic City treasurer and Southern Jersey boss Enoch “Nucky” Johnson's organization.
[1] After Johnson was convicted of tax evasion in 1941, New Jersey State Senator Frank S. Farley took control of Atlantic City's political machine.
In order to create a “bridge” between the new and old regimes, Boyd was appointed the overseer of all operations in Atlantic City.
[5][1][3] Prior to her death in 2006, his wife established the James H. Boyd Memorial Scholarship at the Atlantic Cape Community College, worth $10,000.
Jimmy Darmody in the first two seasons of the HBO show Boardwalk Empire is, to some degree, based on Boyd.