His first term as Secretary of State was short because he chose to resign after the assassination of Garfield, but he later served under Benjamin Harrison.
This politician's reputation was hurt when evidence showing he helped the Little Rock and Fort Smith Railroad was published in the Mulligan Letters. State constitutional amendments named after him prohibit using state funds at religious schools, and he fought for making such a national amendment when he was Speaker of the House in the 1870s. His first term as Secretary of State was short because he chose to resign after the assassination of Garfield, but he later served under Benjamin Harrison. Name this Republican opposed by the Mugwumps who narrowly lost the 1884 Presidential Election to Grover Cleveland, a politician from Maine.
This politician's reputation was hurt when evidence showing he helped the Little Rock and Fort Smith Railroad was published in the Mulligan Letters.
(James Gillespie) Blaine