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‘'’James Gillespie Blaine’’’, Representative and a Senator from [[Maine]]; born in West Brownsville, Washington County, Pa., January 31, 1830; graduated from Washington College, Washington, Pa., in 1847; taught at the Western Military Institute, Blue Lick Springs, Ky.; returned to [[Pennsylvania]]; studied [[law]]; taught at the Pennsylvania Institution for the Blind in Philadelphia 1852-1854; moved in 1854 to Maine, where he edited the Portland Advertiser and the Kennebec Journal; member, State house of representatives 1859-1862, serving the last two years as speaker; elected as a Republican to the Thirty-eighth and to the six succeeding Congresses and served from March 4, 1863, to July 10, 1876, when he resigned; Speaker of the House of Representatives (Forty-first through Forty-third Congresses); chairman, Committee on Rules (Forty-third through Forty-fifth Congresses); unsuccessful candidate for nomination for President on the [[Republican]] ticket in 1876 and 1880; appointed and subsequently elected as a Republican to the United States Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Lot M. Morrill; reelected and served from July 10, 1876, to March 5, 1881, when he resigned to become [[Secretary of State]]; chairman, Committee on Civil Service and Retrenchment (Forty-fifth Congress), [[Committee on Rules]] (Forty-fifth Congress); Secretary of State in the Cabinets of Presidents [[James Garfield]] and [[Chester Arthur]], from March 5 to December 12, 1881; unsuccessful Republican candidate for President of the United States in 1884; Secretary of State in the Cabinet of President [[Benjamin Harrison]] 1889-1892, when he resigned; aided in organizing and was the first president of the [[Pan American Congress]]; died in [[Washington, D.C.]], January 27, 1893; interment in Oak Hill Cemetery; reinterment at the request of the State of Maine in the Blaine Memorial Park, Augusta, Maine, in June 1920.
==References==
*http://bioguide.congress.gov/biosearch/biosearch.asp
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==References==
*http://bioguide.congress.gov/biosearch/biosearch.asp
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[[Category:United States Representatives]]
[[Category:Speakers of the House(US)]]