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James Gillespie Blaine (January 31, 1830 – January 27, 1893) was an American statesman and Republican politician who represented Maine in the United States House of Representatives from 1863 to 1876, serving as Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives from 1869 to 1875, and then in the United States Senate from 1876 to 1881.
James G. Blaine was a leading Republican politician and diplomat for 25 years (1868–93), who was particularly influential in launching the Pan-American Movement with Latin-American countries. Blaine graduated from Washington (now Washington and Jefferson) College in Washington, Pa., in 1847 and.
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Republican Representative James G. Blaine called the slender popular majority for Grant "a very startling fact." [ 17 ] Blaine, an acute judge of popular sentiment, was at a loss to explain the size of the Democratic vote. [ 18 ]
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Ulysses S. Grant and James G. Blaine on the Origins of Black Suffrage This essay challenges scholarship on Americans’ memory of the Civil War era by examining reminiscences of Reconstruction by Ulysses S. Grant and James G. Blaine published after 1876. Study of the memory of Reconstruction has lagged behind that
OVERVIEW: BORN: January 31, 1830; West Brownsville, Pennsylvania. DIED: January 27, 1893 (age 62); Washington, DC. EDUCATION: Washington College (BA, 1847)
space devoted to James G. Blaine. Successively Speaker of Congress and United States Senator, the Magnetic Man from Maine by 1876 con-sidered himself ready for the presidency. In January of that year he delivered an incredibly foul verbal attack on the aged Jefferson Davis in the United States Senate. He accused the former Confederate
The presidential campaign of 1884 was one of the most memorable in American history. The Republican nominee, James G. Blaine of Maine, was nicknamed the "plumed knight," but disgruntled Republican reformers regarded him as a symbol of corruption. He "wallowed in spoils like a rhinoceros in an African pool."
