James G Blaine

Politician

James G Blaine was born in West Brownsville, Pennsylvania, United States on January 31st, 1830 and is the Politician. At the age of 62, James G Blaine biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.

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Date of Birth
January 31, 1830
Nationality
United States
Place of Birth
West Brownsville, Pennsylvania, United States
Death Date
Jan 27, 1893 (age 62)
Zodiac Sign
Aquarius
Profession
Diplomat, Editor, Journalist, Lawyer, Politician
James G Blaine Height, Weight, Eye Color and Hair Color

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Washington and Jefferson College (BA)
James G Blaine Spouse(s), Children, Affair, Parents, and Family
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Harriet Stanwood
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7, including Walker
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James G Blaine Life

James Gillespie Blaine, (January 31, 1830 to 1876), a Republican legislator who represented Maine in the United States House of Representatives from 1863 to 1876, then as Speaker of the United States Senate from 1869 to 1881, and then in the United States Senate from 1869 to 1881. Blaine served as Secretary of State from 1881-1882, one of only two people to hold the position under three presidents (the other being Daniel Webster), and unsuccessfully applied for President in 1876 and 1880 before being nominated in 1884.

He was barely defeated by Democrat Grover Cleveland in the general election.

Blaine was one of the late 19th century's top Republicans and promoter of the moderately conservative group of the party known as the "Half-Breeds" in the late 19th century. Blaine was born in West Brownsville, Pennsylvania, and after college, he moved to Maine, where he became a newspaper editor.

He was nicknamed "the Magnetic Man" by Nicknamed "the Magnet Man," a vivacious speaker in an age that lauded oratory.

He began his political career as an early promoter of Abraham Lincoln's Union war campaign in the American Civil War.

Blaine, a supporter of black suffrage in Reconstruction, was a supporter of black suffrage but opposed some of the Radical Republicans' more coercive steps.

He started as a protector but later worked for a cut in the tariff and the increase of American trade with foreign countries.

Railroad promotion and construction were among his time's most prominent topics, and Blaine was widely suspected of fraud in the awarding of railroad charters, particularly with the emergence of the Mulligan letters; his 1884 presidential candidacy was plagued by these allegations. Blaine, as Secretary of State, was a transitional figure, heralding the end of an isolationist foreign policy period and foreshadowing the emergence of the American Century, which would begin with the Spanish–American War.

His attempts to boost the US' trade and influence sparked the change to a more active foreign policy.

Blaine was a pioneer of tariff parity and was urged to become more involved in Latin American affairs.

Blaine's policies, which have been an extensionist, will lead to the establishment of the United States' acquisition of Pacific colonies and Caribbean dominance.

Early life

James Gillespie Blaine was born in West Brownsville, Pennsylvania, third child of Ephraim Lyon Blaine and his wife Maria (Gillespie) Blaine. Harriet and Margaret were his two older sisters. Blaine's father, a west Pennsylvania businessman and landowner, lived in relative security, and the family lived in relative security. Blaine was descendant from Scotch-Irish settlers who first immigrated to Pennsylvania in 1745, on his father's side. In the American Revolutionary War, his great-grandfather, Ephraim Blaine, served as a Commissary General under George Washington. Blaine's mother and her forebears immigrated to Pennsylvania in the 1780s. Blaine's parents married in 1820 in a Catholic service, but Blaine's father remained a Presbyterian. Following a common bargain of the time, the Blaines decided that their daughters would be raised in their mother's Catholic faith, but that their sons would be brought up in their father's faith. Angela Gillespie, James Blaine's cousin, was a nun and established the Sisters of the Holy Cross in the United States. Blaine's father, who was a member of the Whig Party, endorsed the Whig Party in politics.

Blaine's biographers describe his childhood as "harmonious" and point out that the boy took an early interest in history and literature. Blaine enrolled in Washington College (now Washington & Jefferson College), in nearby Washington, Pennsylvania, at the age of thirteen. He was a member of the Washington Literary Society, one of the college's debating societies. Blaine excelled academically, graduating near the top of his class and giving the salutatory address in June 1847. Blaine considered Yale Law School after graduating but decided against it, instead seeking a job in the United States.

Blaine was hired as a mathematics and ancient languages professor at Georgetown, Kentucky, in 1848. Despite the fact that Blaine was younger than some of his classmates and just 18 years old, he adapted well to his new role. Blaine grew to live in his adopted state and became an admirer of Kentucky Senator Henry Clay. Harriet Stanwood, a teacher at the nearby Millersburg Female College and a Maine native, was also a student at the University of Maine. Blaine reconsidered studying law on a whimsy but instead took his new bride to visit his family in Pennsylvania on June 30, 1850. Stanwood Blaine, the couple's first child, was born in 1851, lived with Harriet Blaine's family in Augusta, Maine, for several months. The young family migrated straight into Philadelphia, this time to the Pennsylvania Institute for the Instruction of the Blind, where Blaine began teaching science and literature in 1852.

Blaine was allowed to begin to study the law at last, but he was given a more promising bid in 1853: to become editor and co-owner of the Kennebec Journal. Blaine had spent several vacations in his wife's home state of Maine, Maine, and had become good with the Journal's editors. When Luther Severance, the newspaper's founder, died, Blaine and co-editor Joseph Baker were invited to purchase the newspaper. He accepted the purchase price from his wife's brothers right away. Baker sold his shares to John L. Stevens, a local minister, in 1854. The Journal had been a staunchly Whig newspaper, which contrasted Blaine's and Stevens' political views. Blaine began to be a newspaperman, a strange occurrence. Blaine's purchase of the Journal coincided with the Whig party's demise and the founding of the Republican Party, as well as the founding of the Republican Party, and Blaine and Stevens' newspaper were vocally supporting the new party. Blaine's newspaper was financially stable, and he was soon able to invest his funds in coal mines in Pennsylvania and Virginia, establishing the foundation of his future wealth.

Blaine's career as a Republican newspaperman led naturally to his involvement in party politics. He was elected delegate to the first Republican National Convention in 1856. Blaine identifies with the conservative Wing of the party, supporting Supreme Court Justice John McLean for the presidential nomination over the more radical John C. Frémont, the eventual nominee. Blaine's editorship at the Portland Daily Advertiser was accepted by the following year, sparking his participation in the Journal shortly thereafter. He also stayed in Augusta, but with his growing family, he maintained his home. Although Blaine's first son, Stanwood, died in infancy, Harriet and Harriet followed two more sons shortly afterward: Walker, who died in 1855, and Emmons in 1857. Alice, James, Margaret, and Harriet are expected to have four more children in years to come. Blaine left the Presbyterian church of his youth to join his wife's new faith during his marriage, becoming a member of the South Parish Congregational Church in Augusta.

Blaine ran for a seat in the Maine House of Representatives in 1858 and was elected. He ran for reelection in 1859, 1860, and 1861, and was met with great majorities each time. Blaine started reducing his responsibilities with the Advertiser in 1860, and he eventually stopped reporting completely. In comparison, Stevens' political fame was on the rise as he became chairman of the Republican state committee in 1859, replacing Stevens. Blaine was not a delegate to the Republican convention in 1860 but stayed on as a ardent promoter of Abraham Lincoln. He was elected Speaker of the Maine House of Representatives in 1861 and reelected in 1862. Lincoln praised Lincoln's war effort and learned that the Maine Legislature approved to organize and equip units to join the Union Army at the outbreak of the Civil War in 1861.

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