A mentor to Chester A. Arthur, he declined an appointment to the Supreme Court in 1882 after being confirmed by the Senate.
One cartoon by Thomas Nast shows this figure as a Jackdaw with borrowed plumes, while in another depiction by Nast both he and Thomas Platt are depicted as having lost their heads. He was also depicted as a goat running home from Washington after he resigned his senate seat, and, though he attempted to run for the seat he himself had just vacated, he was defeated in the ensuing election. He had resigned over the appointment of William Robertson as Collector of the Port of (*) New York by James Garfield, which was presumably a violation of the Treaty of Fifth Avenue that the faction he led agreed to with the Half-Breeds. A mentor to Chester A. Arthur, he declined an appointment to the Supreme Court in 1882 after being confirmed by the Senate. For 10 points, name this leader of the Stalwarts.
One cartoon by Thomas Nast shows this figure as a Jackdaw with borrowed plumes, while in another depiction by Nast both he and Thomas Platt are depicted as having lost their heads.
{Roscoe Conkling}