The Life and Public Services of James G. Blaine, with Incidents, Anecdotes, and Romantic Events Connected with His Early Life by Conwell, Russell H - 1884

Augusta, Maine: E. C. Allen & Co., 1884. Book. Very Good+. Hardcover. First Edition.. Augusta, Maine: E. C. Allen & Co., 1884. First Edition . Very Good+. Very clean and attractive hardcover book. Brown pebbled cloth boards with black decoration and lettering on cover and spine, gold title box on spine. Blind stamped decoration and lettering to rear cover. Very tiny closed tears at top edge of spine cloth. Binding is tight and square, hinges are sound - no cracking. Pages and edges are clean with clean endpapers - no names, writing or bookplates. Slight browning to page edges. Frontispiece portrait of Blaine with tissue guard; sixteen additional full page illustrations. With an Introduction by Frederick Robie, Governor of Maine. 504 pages. Former Speaker of the United States House of Representatives, James Gillespie Blaine was an American statesman and Republican politician who represented Maine in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1863 to 1876, serving as Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives from 1869 to 1875, and then in the United States Senate from 1876 to 1881. Blaine twice served as Secretary of State (1881, 1889Â1892), one of only two persons to hold the position under three separate presidents (the other being Daniel Webster), and unsuccessfully sought the Republican nomination for President in 1876 and 1880 before being nominated in 1884. In the general election, he was narrowly defeated by Democrat Grover Cleveland.