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Created page with "'''Stalwart''' was a term used to describe the conservative wing of the Republican Party from 1877-1894 that opposed civil service reform and favored the traditona..."
'''Stalwart''' was a term used to describe the [[conservative]] wing of the [[Republican Party]] from 1877-1894 that opposed [[civil service reform]] and favored the traditonal method of the [[spoils system]] instead. They were led by [[Senator]] [[Roscoe Conkling]] of [[New York]] and supported [[Ulysses S. Grant]] and were successors of the [[Radical Republicans]] who strongly opposed slavery.