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'''Stalwart''' was a term used to describe the [[conservative]] wing of the [[Republican Party]] during the [[Gilded Age]] that stood firmly for equal rights for [[African American]]s and opposed [[Jim Crow]] and the [[Ku Klux Klan]]. They opposed the Jim Crow Democrats' efforts to rebuild the [[Democratic Party]] in the post-[[American Civil War|Civil War]] era with a [[civil service system]] that discriminated against [[Black]]s, instead favoring the traditional [[spoils system]]. They were led by [[Senator]] [[Roscoe Conkling]] of [[New York]] and supported [[Ulysses S. Grant]]; they were successors of the [[Radical Republicans]] who strongly opposed [[slavery]]. [[Vice President]] [[Levi P. Morton]], John A. Logan, Thomas C. Platt, Frederick Theodore Frelinghuysen, [[Chester A. Arthur]], J. Donald Cameron, and William B. Allison were all Stalwarts as well.

'''Stalwart''' was a term used to describe the [[conservative]] wing of the [[Republican Party]] during the [[Gilded Age]] that stood firmly for equal rights for [[African American]]s and opposed [[Jim Crow]] and the [[Ku Klux Klan]]. They opposed the Jim Crow Democrats' efforts to rebuild the [[Democratic Party]] in the post-[[American Civil War|Civil War]] era with a [[civil service system]] that discriminated against [[Black]]s, instead favoring the traditional [[spoils system]].

 

They were led by [[Senator]] [[Roscoe Conkling]] of [[New York]] and supported [[Ulysses S. Grant]]; the Stalwarts were successors of the [[Radical Republicans]] who strongly opposed [[slavery]]. [[Vice President]] [[Levi P. Morton]], John A. Logan, Thomas C. Platt, Frederick Theodore Frelinghuysen, [[Chester A. Arthur]], J. Donald Cameron, [[Leonidas C. Houk]], and William B. Allison were all Stalwarts as well.

==See also==

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