Ackerman, Kenneth D. Dark Horse: The Surprise Election and Political Murder of President James A. Garfield.(Book Review)

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Ackerman, Kenneth D. Dark Horse: The Surprise Election and Political Murder of President James A. Garfield New York: Carroll & Graf Publishers 551 pp., $28.00, ISBN 0-7867-1151-5 Publication Date: May 2003

In 1880, Senator Roscoe Conkling of New York wanted Ulysses S. Grant nominated for a third term as president. Unfortunately for Conkling, when the Chicago convention deadlocked between Grant and Senator James G. Blaine of Maine, Conkling's enemy in the Senate, James Garfield was nominated. To assuage Conkling, Chester A. Arthur, whom Hayes had fired as collector of the port ...

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