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	James G. Blaine - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Blaine was Secretary of State in the Cabinets of Presidents James Garfield and Chester Arthur from March 5 to December 12, 1881.
		Blaine, on the other hand, contended that representation should be based on population instead of voters, as being fairer to the North, where the ratio of voters varied widely, and he insisted that it should be safeguarded by security for impartial suffrage.
		Blaine was appointed and subsequently elected as a Republican to the United States Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Lot M. Morrill.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/James_Blaine (1512 words)

	Blaine, James Gillespie. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		Blaine became Garfield& Secretary of State, but upon the President& assassination resigned.
		Blaine privately secured possession of the famous “Mulligan letters,” which had been named as proof, before they could be placed on record, and he never surrendered them.
		Blaine, leader of the “Half-Breed” Republicans, who were against corrupt patronage practices, was widely considered the logical Republican choice for President in 1876.
	www.bartleby.com /65/bl/Blaine-J.html (591 words)

	James G. Blaine
		President James A. Garfield named him secretary of state in 1881, but Garfield's term in office was too brief to allow Blaine to develop a foreign policy.
		As a leading contender for his party's nomination in 1876, Blaine became embroiled in charges of corruption relating to an Arkansas railroad and the "Mulligan Letters" that bore on his involvement.
		Blaine was narrowly defeated, but he had run better than his party and had laid the basis for the party's success four years later.
	www.course-notes.org /biographies/jamesgillespieblaine.htm (443 words)

	James G. Blaine and Latin America David Healy
		James G. Blaine was one of the leading national political figures of his day, and probably the most controversial.
		James G. Blaine and Latin America asserts that Latin America lay at the heart of Blaine's foreign policy and his vision for America.
		Blaine's emphasis on the importance of Latin America to the United States and his conviction that his country should be a world power influenced a new generation of leaders who, at the end of the century, would go beyond his goals and usher in a new era.
	www.umsystem.edu /upress/fall2001/healy.htm (400 words)

	JAMES GILLESPIE BLAINE - LoveToKnow Article on JAMES GILLESPIE BLAINE
		See the Biography of James G. Blame (Norwich, Conn., 1895) by Mary Abigail Dodge (Gail Hamilton), and, in the American Statesmen Series, James G. Blame (Boston, 1905) by C. Stanwood; also Mrs Blames Letters (1908).
		The Republican national convention of 1880, divided between the two nearly equal forces of Blame and General U. GrantJohn Sherman of Ohio also having a considerable followingstruggled through thirty-six ballots, when the friends of Blame, combining with those of Sherman, succeeded in nominating General James A. Garfield.
		In the new administration Blame became secretary of state, but, owing to the assassination of President Garfield and the reorganization of the cabinet by President Chester A. Arthur, he held the office only until December 1881.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /B/BL/BLAINE_JAMES_GILLESPIE.htm (1122 words)

	Election of 1884
		Blaine's opponents published what were called the "Mulligan Letters", which proported to show that Blaine received bribes.
		Cleveland's opponent in the election was James Blaine of Maine.
		He ended speculation that he would run by making what has become known as a Sherman statement: "If nominated, I will not accept, and if elected I will not serve." Blaine won the nomination on the fourth ballot.
	www.multied.com /elections/1884.html (237 words)

	James G. Blaine
		Blaine was rewarded for his support of James A. Garfield in 1880 by being named secretary of state; he resigned shortly after President Garfield's assassination.
		James Gillespie Blaine was born in West Brownsville, Pennsylvania, south of Pittsburgh.
		Blaine refused to seek the nomination in 1888, threw his support to Benjamin Harrison and later received an appointment as secretary of state.
	www.u-s-history.com /pages/h726.html (493 words)

	James Gillespie Blaine Papers (Library of Congress)
		The letters to Harriet Stanwood Blaine from William E. Chandler and Lucretia Rudolph Garfield and to Walker Blaine from William Henry Trescott are particularly revealing.
		Especially valuable is Harriet Stanwood Blaine's memoir of President James A. Garfield's assassination.
		Blaine served two presidents as secretary of state, and there is a significant amount of correspondence written while he was traveling in Europe in 1867.
	www.loc.gov /rr/mss/text/blaine.html (1024 words)

	JGB.html
		When Garfield was assassinated, Blaine resigned and retired briefly to private life.
		Blaine ran for president three times, in 1876, 1880 and 1884.
		Three days before the 1892 convention, Blaine resigned from the State Department and sought the Republican nomination a final time.
	www.blaineamendments.org /Intro/JGB.html (389 words)

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		James G. Blaine died in Washington, D. C., on January 27, 1893 and was interred at Oak Hill Cemetery.
		James G. Blaine was born on a farm near West Brownville, Pennsylvania.
		It was at this convention that the nickname "Plumed Knight" was bestowed on Blaine in a nominating speech by Robert Ingersoll.
	immigrants.harpweek.com /ChineseAmericans/3Biographies/BlaineJames.htm (663 words)

	USA-Presidents.Info - James Garfield
		In 1876, when James G. Blaine moved from the House to the Senate, Garfield became the Republican floor leader of the House.
		James Abram Garfield (November 19, 1831 - September 19, 1881) was the 20th (1881) President of the United States, the first left-handed President, and the second U.S. President to be assassinated.
		His father died in 1833, when James Abram was 18 months old, and he grew up cared for by his mother and an uncle.
	www.usa-presidents.info /garfield.htm (858 words)

	Amazon.ca: Books: James G. Blaine: Architect of Empire: Architect of Empire
		James G. Blaine is an excellent resource for scholars and students interested in America's imperial past and the figures who played key roles in America's global economic development.
		In James G. Blaine: Architect of Empire, author Edward P. Crapol assesses Blaine's role as an architect of empire and revisits the ambitious imperialistic goals of this two-time secretary of state.
		Blaine used his influence on the navy and to encourage the movement into such spheres as the 'guano' islands, finally America was beggining to actually enfore the Monroe Doctrin, which had been enacted more then 50 years before.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0842026053 (415 words)

	James Gillespie Blaine (1830 - 1893)
		Blaine envisaged a system of inter-American arbitration which might relieve international tensions, prevent future conflict and strengthen the Monroe Doctrine.
		Blaine's stand prevented the wholesale defection [from the Republican Party] of the midwestern vote in succeeding elections
		1881: forced to resign after assassination of James A. Garfield.
	spartan.ac.brocku.ca /~lward/Mead/bios/pages/Blaine.html (289 words)

	James G. Blaine - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Blaine was Secretary of State in the Cabinets of Presidents James Garfield and Chester Arthur from March 5 to December 12, 1881.
		Blaine, on the other hand, contended that representation should be based on population instead of voters, as being fairer to the North, where the ratio of voters varied widely, and he insisted that it should be safeguarded by security for impartial suffrage.
		Blaine was appointed and subsequently elected as a Republican to the United States Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Lot M. Morrill.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/James_G._Blaine (1606 words)

	James G. Blaine - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Blaine was Secretary of State in the Cabinets of Presidents James Garfield and Chester Arthur from March 5 to December 12, 1881.
		Blaine, on the other hand, contended that representation should be based on population instead of voters, as being fairer to the North, where the ratio of voters varied widely, and he insisted that it should be safeguarded by security for impartial suffrage.
		Blaine was appointed and subsequently elected as a Republican to the United States Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Lot M. Morrill.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/James_Blaine (1528 words)

	Poet: James Blaine Shultz - All poems of James Blaine Shultz
		James Blaine Shultz, age 35, scrapyard supervisor, divorced father of 3 beautiful sons Christopher Blaine...
		Poet: James Blaine Shultz - All poems of James Blaine Shultz
		James Blaine Shultz, International Poetry Hall of Fame
	www.poemhunter.com /james-blaine-shultz/poet-4556 (196 words)

	MSN Encarta - Search Results - James G Blaine
		Blaine, James Gillespie (1830-1893), American legislator, who served as Speaker of the House of Representatives (1869-75) and secretary of state...
		Search for Magazine Articles on "James G Blaine"
		MSN Encarta - Search Results - James G Blaine
	ca.encarta.msn.com /James_G_Blaine.html (133 words)

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		Home Explore Blaine Academics Parents Students Faculty and Staff Chicago
		We envision community involvement, cultural and social experiences, and respect for diversity as an integral component of our School Improvement Plan.
	www.blaine.cps.k12.il.us (70 words)

	AllRefer.com - James Gillespie Blaine (U.S. History, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		AllRefer.com - James Gillespie Blaine (U.S. History, Biography) - Encyclopedia
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	Blaine, James Gillespie. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		Blaine became Garfield& Secretary of State, but upon the President& assassination resigned.
		Blaine, leader of the “Half-Breed” Republicans, who were against corrupt patronage practices, was widely considered the logical Republican choice for President in 1876.
		His friendship with James A. Garfield of Ohio and William B. Allison of Iowa brought him support in the West, but a slighting personal remark he made in 1866 about Roscoe Conkling won him the lifelong enmity of that leader of the “Stalwart” Republicans.
	www.bartleby.com /65/bl/Blaine-J.html (591 words)

	James G. Blaine and Latin America David Healy
		James G. Blaine was one of the leading national political figures of his day, and probably the most controversial.
		James G. Blaine and Latin America asserts that Latin America lay at the heart of Blaine's foreign policy and his vision for America.
		Blaine's emphasis on the importance of Latin America to the United States and his conviction that his country should be a world power influenced a new generation of leaders who, at the end of the century, would go beyond his goals and usher in a new era.
	www.umsystem.edu /upress/fall2001/healy.htm (400 words)

	James Gillespie Blaine
		Blaine expressed the belief that the true interpretation of the election of 1866 was that, in addition to the proposed constitutional amendmentthe 14thimpartial suffrage should be the basis of reconstruction, and he urged the wisdom of declaring the terms at once.
		Blaine at all times defended the sanctity of the ballot, and in December 1878, pending a resolution presented by himself for an inquiry into certain alleged frauds in the south, made a powerful plea as to the injustice wrought by a denial of the franchise to the blacks.
		Blaine entered the department of state, war was raging between Chile and Peru, and he sought to exercise the good offices of our government, first, for the restoration of peace, and, second, to mitigate the consequences of the crushing defeat sustained by Peru.
	www.famousamericans.net /jamesgillespieblaine (7387 words)

	Earlier Explorations--Lewis and Clark Expedition: A National Register of Historic Places Travel Itinerary
		James Neeham and Gabriel Arthur reached the Yadkin River and found a pass through the Carolina Blue Ridge in 1673.
		Captain Abraham Wood, in 1650, explored the forks of the Roanoke River in Virginia.
		It was the English fur traders who pushed west into the Shenandoah Valley in the 1680s.
	www.cr.nps.gov /nr/travel/LewisandClark/earlierexplorations.htm (2408 words)

	James G. Blaine
		James Gillespie Blaine was born in West Brownsville, Pennsylvania, south of Pittsburgh.
		Blaine was rewarded for his support of James A. Garfield in 1880 by being named secretary of state; he resigned shortly after President Garfield's assassination.
		Blaine graduated from Washington College (later Washington and Jefferson) in 1847 and spent several years as a teacher, first in a military academy and later a school for the blind.
	www.u-s-history.com /pages/h726.html (493 words)

	Blaine and Pan Americanism
		James G. Blaine, "the man from Maine," died in January 1893 at age 63.
		Lester D. Langley, "James Blaine: The Ideologue as Diplomatist" in Makers of American Diplomacy: From Benjamin Franklin to Henry Kissinger, edited by Frank J. Merli and Theodore A. Wilson (New York, 1974).
		President-elect Garfield named James G. Blaine, his former rival for the Republican presidential nomination, to his cabinet as Secretary of State.
	www.state.gov /r/pa/ho/time/gp/16323.htm (408 words)

	American President
		One of the most prominent politicians of the nineteenth century, James G. Blaine was born in West Brownsville, Pennsylvania, in 1830 and graduated from Washington and Jefferson College in 1847 at the age of seventeen.
		Blaine won a seat in the House of Representatives in 1862 and emerged as a rising star in the Republican Party leadership.
		Blaine finally received the Republican Party nomination for President in 1884 but lost to Grover Cleveland in a very close and bitterly contested election.
	www.americanpresident.org /history/chesterccrthur/cabinet/statesecretary/JamesGBlaine/h_index.shtml (265 words)

	Blaine, James Gillespie - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Blaine, James Gillespie
		Blaine was born in West Brownsville, Pennsylvania, and graduated from Washington College 1847.
		Blaine strongly opposed the issue of paper money during the Civil War, and the immigration of Chinese.
		During the Harrison administration 1889–93, Blaine was again secretary of state.
	encyclopedia.farlex.com /Blaine%2c+James+Gillespie (206 words)

	James G. Blaine
		Blaine was rewarded for his support of James A. Garfield in 1880 by being named secretary of state; he resigned shortly after President Garfield's assassination.
		James Gillespie Blaine was born in West Brownsville, Pennsylvania, south of Pittsburgh.
		Blaine refused to seek the nomination in 1888, threw his support to Benjamin Harrison and later received an appointment as secretary of state.
	www.u-s-history.com /pages/h726.html (493 words)

	Bio of James Gillespie Blaine
		James Blaine was the first of the name to settle there, which he did in 1722, locating near what is now the City of Carlisle.
		JAMES GILLESPIE BLAINE was a Pennsylvanian by birth, having been born in Brownsville, Washington County, on January 31, 1830.
		Blaine went to Philadelphia to teach in the Pennsylvania Institution for the Instruction of the Blind and to study law during his spare hours, which he did for a time with Theodore Cuyler, Esq.
	history.rays-place.com /bios/maine/blaine-jg.htm (1156 words)

	Encyclopedia: James A. Garfield
		James G. Blaine James Gillespie Blaine (January 31, 1830–January 27, 1893) was a U.S. Representative, U.S. Senator from Maine and a two-time United States Secretary of State.
		In 1876, when James G. Blaine moved from the House to the United States Senate, Garfield became the Republican Floor Leader of the House.
		James Abram Garfield (November 19, 1831 â“ September 19, 1881) was the 20th President of the United States (1881), and the second U.S. President to be assassinated.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/James-A.-Garfield (7683 words)

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