The New York Times: TRIBUTE TO JAMES G. BLAINE.; DELIVERED BY SPEAKER BARRETT OF THE MASSACHUSETTS HOUSE.
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James G. Blaine
James Gillespie Blaine was an American statesman and Republican politician who represented Maine in the United States House of Representatives from 1863 to 1876, served as Speaker of the House from 1869 to 1875, and was a United States senator from 1876 to 1881. He served twice as Secretary of State, under presidents James A. Garfield and Chester A. Arthur in 1881, and under Benjamin Harrison from…
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Born 31 January 1830 · Died 27 January 1893 · Q448778
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2026· 1 entry
1934· 1 entry
The subtitle "A Political Idol of Other Days" already spoke to its subject's fading place in the popular mind, perhaps because of the nine men the Republican Party nominated for the presidency from 1860 to 1912, Blaine i
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1893· 1 entry
Died 1893-01-27.
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1891· 2 entries
A mob stormed the jail and lynched eleven of them
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A diplomatic crisis arose in Chile that drove a wedge between Harrison and Blaine
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1889· 2 entries
Required Harrison to ban seal hunting in Alaskan waters, but Canadian fishermen believed they had the right to continue fishing there
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Career landmark: United States Secretary of State (1889–1892).
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1884· 3 entries
Election lost: 1884 presidential election.
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Campaign: 1884 presidential election.
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Have been compared to the Never Trump movement
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1882· 2 entries
To mediate disputes among the Latin American nations and to serve as a forum for talks on increasing trade
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During an investigation into his War of the Pacific diplomacy, defending himself against allegations that he owned an interest in the Peruvian guano deposits being occupied by Chile, but otherwise stayed away from the Ca
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1881· 6 entries
But he agreed to remain in office until December 19, when his successor would be in place
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Blaine and Garfield were walking through the Sixth Street Station of the Baltimore and Potomac Railroad in Washington when Garfield was shot by Charles J
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Guiteau had encountered Blaine just outside the State Department
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And under Benjamin Harrison from 1889 to 1892
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Career landmark: United States Secretary of State (1881–1881).
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Career landmark: United States senator (1881–1881).
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1880· 3 entries
Election won: 1880 presidential election.
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Campaign: 1880 presidential election.
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Was open to all challengers—including Blaine
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1879· 1 entry
Career landmark: United States senator (1879–1881).
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1877· 1 entry
Career landmark: United States senator (1877–1879).
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1876· 5 entries
Election lost: 1876 presidential election.
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But did not begin his duties there until the Senate convened in December of that year
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Campaign: 1876 presidential election.
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Career landmark: United States senator (1876–1877).
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And 1880, and received the nomination in 1884, narrowly losing the general election to Democratic nominee Grover Cleveland
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1874· 1 entry
To Maria Crofts Halpin, the woman who claimed he fathered her child named Oscar Folsom Cleveland
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1869· 1 entry
Career landmark: Speaker of the United States House of Representatives (1869–1875).
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1868· 1 entry
Although he had initially opposed the effort
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1864· 1 entry
And, when the 39th Congress assembled in December 1865, the main issue was the Reconstruction of the defeated Confederate States
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1863· 1 entry
And proposed a constitutional amendment allowing the federal government to impose taxes on exports, but it never passed
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1861· 1 entry
Supported Lincoln's war effort and saw that the Maine Legislature voted to organize and equip units to join the Union Army
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1860· 2 entries
And he soon ceased editorial work altogether
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But attended anyway as an enthusiastic supporter of Abraham Lincoln
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1859· 1 entry
1860, and 1861, and was successful each time by large majorities
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1858· 1 entry
Blaine ran for a seat in the Maine House of Representatives, and was elected
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1856· 1 entry
Was selected as a delegate to the first Republican National Convention
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1853· 1 entry
Received a more tempting offer: to become editor and co-owner of the Kennebec Journal
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1848· 1 entry
Blaine was hired as a professor of mathematics and ancient languages at the Western Military Institute in Georgetown, Kentucky
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1847· 1 entry
Blaine graduated near the top of his class and delivered the salutatory address in June 1847.
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1830· 2 entries
Born 1830-01-31.
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James Gillespie Blaine was born January 31, 1830, in West Brownsville, Pennsylvania, the third child of Ephraim Lyon Blaine and Maria (Gillespie) Blaine.
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1820· 2 entries
Blaine's parents were married in 1820 in a Catholic ceremony, although Blaine's father remained a Presbyterian.
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In a Catholic ceremony, although Blaine's father remained a Presbyterian
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