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Also Known As James Gillespie Blaine
Born January 31, 1830 • Pennsylvania
Died January 27, 1893 (aged 62) • Washington, D.C. • United States
Title / Office United States Senate (1876-1881), United States
Political Affiliation Republican Party
Role In Bering Sea Dispute • First International Conference of American States

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James G. Blaine
Blaine, photograph by Mathew Brady
The Raven, caricature depicting Pres. Benjamin Harrison, seated, with a bust of his grandfather, William Henry Harrison, and a raven with the head of Secretary of State James G. Blaine; by Joseph Keppler, 1890.
American presidential election, 1884
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