The civil service was once politicized. Then a president was assassinated.
Reformers in the Republican Party, which dominated national politics in the 1860s and 1870s, had been calling for a ...
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Garfield's Campaign Speech
In 1880, James Garfield traveled to Republican party headquarters in New York for a meeting with the leader of the Stalwart faction of the party, Roscoe Conkling. Garfield’s trip culminated in ...
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Lucretia Garfield
The death of their three-year-old daughter and Garfield's affair in New York threatened to tear Lucretia and James apart. But the future First Lady's steadfastness and unwavering moral compass ...