For 10 points, name this man who lost the election of 1884, and whose nicknames included "Magnetic Man," "Plumed Knight," and "Continental Liar from the State of Maine."
This politician responded to accusations that he married Harriet Stanwood in a shotgun wedding with a dubious claim that they had actually been married twice, the first time without a license. A Walt McDougall cartoon showed this man taking part in the Boodle Banquet on the same day that he heard a speech at the Fifth Avenue Hotel by Samuel Burchard. Bonds for the Little Rock and Fort Smith Railroad were the subject of this man's correspondence in the Mulligan Letters. New York may have been lost by this man after he failed to respond negatively to a speech about "rum, Romanism, and rebellion." For 10 points, name this man who lost the election of 1884, and whose nicknames included "Magnetic Man," "Plumed Knight," and "Continental Liar from the State of Maine."
This politician responded to accusations that he married Harriet Stanwood in a shotgun wedding with a dubious claim that they had actually been married twice, the first time without a license.
James Gillespie Blaine