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  James G. Blaine - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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.
Blaine was Secretary of State in the Cabinets of Presidents James Garfield and Chester Arthur from March 5 to December 12, 1881.
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 Encyclopedia: James Blaine   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Blaine was an unsuccessful candidate for nomination for President on the Republican ticket in 1876 and 1880.
The phrase was not Blaine's, but his opponents made use of it to misrepresent his attitude toward the Roman Catholics, large numbers of whom are supposed, in consequence, to have withdrawn their support.
Blaine died in Washington, D.C. and was interred in Oak Hill Cemetery.
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 james gillespie blaine   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
James Gillespie Blaine (January 1, 1830 - January 27, 1893), American statesman, was born in West Brownsville, Pennsylvania, of sturdy Scottish-Irish stock on the side of his father.
He was the great-grandson of Colonel Ephraim Blaine (1741-1804), who during the War of Independence served in the American army, from 1778 to 1782 as commissary-general of the Northern Department.
By many, including Blaine himself, the defeat was attributed to the effect of a phrase, "Rum, Romanism and Rebellion," used by a clergyman, Rev. Samuel D. Burchard (1812—1891), on October 29 1884, in Blaine's presence, to characterize what, in his' opinion, the, Democratic party stood for.
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 James Gillespie Blaine
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 fls.
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.
Blaine expressed the belief that the true interpretation of the election of 1866 was that, in addition to the proposed constitutional amendment*the 14th*impartial suffrage should be the basis of reconstruction, and he urged the wisdom of declaring the terms at once.
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 James G. Blaine -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Blaine was elected as a (A tributary of the Kansas River that flows from eastern Colorado eastward through Nebraska and Kansas) Republican to the Thirty-eighth Congress and to the six succeeding (The legislature of the United States government) U.S. Congress and served from March 4, 1863, to July 10, 1876, when he resigned.
Blaine was an unsuccessful candidate for nomination for (The chief executive of a republic) President on the Republican ticket in 1876 and 1880.
Blaine, who had previously opposed greenback inflation, now resisted depreciated (A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal; occurs in argentite and in free form; used in coins and jewelry and tableware and photography) silver coinage.
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 James G. Blaine   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
With many early evidences of literary capacity and political aptitude, J.G. Blaine graduated at Washington College in Washington, Pennsylvania, in 1847, and subsequently taught successively in the Western Military Institute, Blue Lick Springs, Kentucky and from 1852-1854, he taught at the Pennsylvania Institution for the Blind in Philadelphia.
Blaine was elected as a Republican to the 38th Congress and to the six succeeding Congresses and served from March 4, 1863, to July 10, 1876, when he resigned.
Many, including Blaine himself, attributed his defeat to the effect of a phrase, "Rum, Romanism and Rebellion," used by a clergyman, Rev. Samuel D. Burchard (1812–1891), on October 29 1884, in Blaine's presence, to characterize what, in his opinion, the, United States Democratic Party stood for.
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 Blaine, James Gillespie. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
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.
Blaine, leader of the “Half-Breed” Republicans, who were against corrupt patronage practices, was widely considered the logical Republican choice for President in 1876.
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.
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 James G. Blaine
Blaine was born on Jan. 31, 1830, in West Brownsville, Pennsylvania.
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.
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.
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 Bio of James Gillespie Blaine
JAMES GILLESPIE BLAINE was a Pennsylvanian by birth, having been born in Brownsville, Washington County, on January 31, 1830.
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.
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.
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 James Blaine   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
James Gillespie Blaine (January 31, 1830 - January 27, 1893) was a U.S. Representative and a Senator from Maine.
Blaine graduated from Washington College, Washington, Pennsylvania, in 1847.
Blaine was elected as a Republican to the Thirty-eighth and to the six succeeding Congresses and served from March 4, 1863, to July 10, 1876, when he resigned.
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 Encyclopedia: James A. Garfield   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
James Abram Garfield (November 19, 1831 – September 19, 1881) was the 20th President of the United States (1881), and the second U.S. President to be assassinated.
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.
The 35th ballot saw an even greater groundswell of support from former Blaine and Sherman supporters (Grant's supporters remained unanimously behind the former President), and on the 36th ballot Garfield was nominated, with virtually all of Blaine and Sherman's delegates breaking ranks to vote for the dark horse nominee.
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 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 refused to seek the nomination in 1888, threw his support to Benjamin Harrison and later received an appointment as secretary of state.
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 Blaine, James Gillespie - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Blaine, James Gillespie
During the Harrison administration 1889–93, Blaine was again secretary of state.
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.
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 James Gillespie Blaine Papers (Library of Congress)
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.
Included in the correspondence are condolences conveyed to Blaine upon the death of his son, Walker, in 1890 and the death of his son, Emmons, in 1892.
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.
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 Welcome to The American Presidency
Blaine was a controversial figure within the Republican party and a frequent contender for the presidency.
Blaine was born on Jan. 31, 1830, in West Brownsville, Pa. At age 17, with a degree from Washington and Jefferson College, he taught classics, English, and mathematics in Kentucky, where he met and married Harriet Stanwood.
Blaine resigned from the cabinet in the summer of 1892, hoping, perhaps, to take the presidential nomination from Harrison, but the latter was easily renominated.
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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.
James G. Blaine died in Washington, D. C., on January 27, 1893 and was interred at Oak Hill Cemetery.
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 James G. Blaine
The American statesman James G. Blaine was born in West Brownsville, Pennsylvania, on the 31st of January 1830, of sturdy Scottish-Irish stock on the side of his father.
With many early evidences of literary capacity and political aptitude, J. Blaine graduated at Washington College in Washington, Pennsylvania, in 1847, and subsequently taught successively in the Military Institute, Georgetown, Kentucky, and in the Institution for the Blind at Philadelphia.
By many, including Blaine himself, the defeat was attributed to the effect of a phrase, "Rum, Romanism and Rebellion", used by a clergyman, Rev. Samuel D. Burchard (1812-1891), on the 29th of October 1884, in Blaine's presence, to characterize what, in his opinion, the, Democratic party stood for.
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 James G. Blaine School at 23rd Streewt and Wayne Avenue   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The James G. Blaine School was located on the south-east corner of North 23rd Street at Wayne Avenue, facing North 23rd Street, in the Pavonia-Cramer Hill section of Camden.
The school was built around the turn of the century, and was named for James Gillespie Blaine, who served twice as Secretary of State and was the 1884 Republican candidate for President of the United States, losing to Grover Cleveland.
The James G. Blaine School was replaced around the time of World War I when the George Washington Elementary School was built at 1033 Cambridge Street, just west of River Road.
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James Harold Brownfield was born on 2 November 1909.
She appeared on the 1920 census in the household of James Milbank Challiss at Atchison, Atchison County, Kansas.
She was enumerated as the daughter of James Milbank Challiss on the 1930 census at 277 North Terrace, Atchison, Atchison County, Kansas.
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 Kennebec Journal
The papers of James Gillespie Blaine, senator and representative from Maine and secretary of state were deposited in the Library of Congress in 1935 by his daughters, Mrs.
The status of copyright in the unpublished writings of James Gillespie Blaine and members of his family is governed by the Copyright Law of the United States (Title 17, U.S.C.).
The family papers of James Gillespie Blaine (1830-1893) span the years 1777-1945, with the bulk of the material concentrated in the years 1870-1892.
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 James G. Blaine --  Encyclopædia Britannica
Blaine graduated from Washington (now Washington and Jefferson) College in Washington, Pa., in 1847 and then taught school for the next six years.
Garfield, James A. 20th president of the United States (March 4–September 19, 1881), who had the second shortest tenure in presidential history.
Senator James G. Blaine, the leader of the party, had been defeated by Cleveland in 1884 and refused to run against him again.
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 Welcome to The American Presidency
The most popular Republican of his time, James Gillespie Blaine served as U.S. congressman, senator, secretary of state, and presidential candidate.
Blaine was born on Jan. 31, 1830, in West Brownsville, Pa. After teaching for several years, he became a journalist in Maine in 1854 after his marriage to Harriet Stanwood.
Tutorow, Norman E., James Gillespie Blaine and the Presidency (1989).
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 James Blaine   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Meanwhile, the History faculty at Brown--James Blaine Hedges, William G. McLoughlin, Klaus Epstein, and Forrest McDonald--introduced me to their subject and I...
Offensive tackle Blaine Thomas won the award in 2004, giving BSU back-to-back Galligan honorees for just...
At the Republican Party convention, delegates were expected to nominate Senator James Blaine.
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