Prior to his political career, he taught at the Pennsylvania Institution for the Blind.  
Prior to his political career, he taught at the Pennsylvania Institution for the Blind.  His famous nickname was given to him by Robert Ingersoll, and he served several terms in the House, including three as Speaker.  His namesake proposed amendments would have canceled all federal funding to parochial schools, and his presidential campaign was derailed in part due to the infamous phrase "Rum, Romanism, and Rebellion."  Also forming the Pan-American Congress during his tenure as Secretary of State, this is, FTP, what "Plumed Knight" and "Continental Liar from the State of Maine" who lost to Grover Cleveland in 1884.
Prior to his political career, he taught at the Pennsylvania Institution for the Blind.  
James Gillespie Blaine