James G. Blaine

Examples of James G. Blaine in the following topics:

• Reform and Scandal: The Campaign of 1884

  • The Republican Party nominated James G.
  • Blaine for president in 1884, even though he had been implicated in a financial scandal.
  • Theodore Roosevelt stunned his upper class New York City friends by supporting Blaine in 1884; by rejecting the Mugwumps, he kept alive his Republican party leadership, clearing the way for his own political aspirations.
  • New England and the Northeastern United States had been a stronghold of the Republican Party since the Civil War era, but the Mugwumps considered Blaine to be an untrustworthy and fraudulent candidate.

• The Scurrilous Campaign

  • Former Speaker of the House James G.
  • In 1876, a Boston bookkeeper named James Mulligan had located some letters showing that Blaine had sold his influence in Congress to various businesses.
  • Democrats and anti-Blaine Republicans made unrestrained attacks on his integrity as a result.
  • Blaine hoped that he would have more support from Irish Americans than Republicans typically did.
  • This 1884 cartoon in Puck magazine ridicules Blaine as the tattooed man, with many indelible scandals.

• Politics in the Gilded Age

  • The scandal divided the Republican party into two different factions: the Stalwarts, led by Roscoe Conkling, and the Half-Breeds, led by James G.
  • Blaine.

• The Election of 1920

  • In the 1920 presidential election, Republican Senator Warren G.
  • Harding soundly defeated Democratic Governor James M.
  • The Republicans chose Senator Warren G.
  • This was four times the amount spent by his Democratic opponent, James M.
  • This set up a hard road for the next Democratic presidential hopeful, James M.

• Grant's Pursuit of Lee

  • Grant, general-in-chief of all Union armies, directed the actions of the Army of the Potomac, commanded by Major General George G.
  • Maneuvering a final time, Grant surprised Lee by stealthily crossing the James River, threatening to capture the city of Petersburg, the loss of which would doom the Confederate capital.
  • After Lee learned that Grant had crossed the James, he realized that he would be forced into a siege of the capital city.
  • Petersburg, a prosperous city of 18,000, was a supply center for Richmond, given its location just south of the capital, its site on the Appomattox River providing navigable access to the James River, and its role as a major junction for five railroads.
  • This map shows the Overland Campaign, from the Battle of the Wilderness to crossing the James River.

• The Plantation Economy and the Planter Class

  • The production of tobacco spread down the James, York, Rappahannock, and the Potomac rivers .
  • The largest and wealthiest planter families, for instance, those with estates fronting on the James River in Virginia, constructed mansions in brick and Georgian style, e.g.
  • The wealthiest planters, such as the Virginia elite with plantations on the James River, had more land and slaves.

• The Roosevelt Administration

  • He was born in 1882 in Hyde Park, New York, to James Roosevelt, a businessman and land-owner, and Sara Ann Delano.
  • Both James and Sara Ann came from affluent New York families and were able to provide their only child with considerable opportunities.
  • In 1920, when James Cox run as the Democratic presidential candidate, FDR served as a vice-presidential candidate.
  • One of the major FDR's war-related legacies at home was the 1944 G.I.
  • Organized labor, urban working class, including white ethnic communities (e.g.

• Postwar Politics and the Election of 1920

  • The Republicans nominated Senator Warren G.
  • Harding, a former newspaper man; in turn, the Democrats chose newspaper publisher and Governor James M.

• Watergate

  • In January of 1972, G.
  • Howard Hunt and CRP Security Coordinator James McCord.
  • Virgilio González, Bernard Barker, James W.

• The Retreat from Progressivism

  • In the 1920 election, Warren G.
  • Harding ran against Democratic Ohio Governor James M.