FTP, name this failed Republican presidential candidate in 1884 and two-time secretary of state, a politician from Maine.
He was editor and co-owner of the Kennebec Journal, a crusading political newspaper.  Eight years after being elected speaker of the House, his good friend Robert Ingersoll called him the "Plumed Night" in offering up this man's name for a presidential nomination.  His later career was marked by his association with the Pan-American Movement, whose first conference he chaired.  However, the death of that movement and ill health caused him to leave public office in 1892.  FTP, name this failed Republican presidential candidate in 1884 and two-time secretary of state, a politician from Maine.
He was editor and co-owner of the Kennebec Journal, a crusading political newspaper.  
James G. Blaine