This piece of legislation was partly inspired by the Northcote-Trevelyan Re
This piece of legislation was partly inspired by the Northcote-Trevelyan Report, which achieved a similar result in Britain years earlier. It was extended by the Lloyd-LaFollette Act, and its 11 sections were probably mostly written by a lawyer named Dorman Eaton. The man who sponsored it was the president of Kentucky Central Railroad, and had run for vice president years before on the ticket of George McClellan. Passed one year after the Chinese Exclusion Act and directly in the wake of Garfield's assassination, it most notably established the Civil Service Commission. FTP, name this act passed in 1883 to limit political patronage.
This piece of legislation was partly inspired by the Northcote-Trevelyan Report, which achieved a similar result in Britain years earlier.
{Pendleton} Act (or take Civil Service Act of 1883 or Civil Service Reform Act before the clue “Civil Service”)