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Condition: Good+. First. James Gillespie Blaine (1830 â?" 1893) was an American statesman and Republican politician who represented Maine in the US House of Representatives from 1863 to 1876, serving as Speaker of the US 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, 1889â?"1892), 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 Blaine was one of the late 19th century's leading Republicans and champion of the moderate reformist faction of the party known as the "Half-Breeds" This is a good copy in brown cloth with gilt titles and illustrations on blind stamped spine and front cover Minor scuffing on edges and read cover Front hinge cracked, but still intact Text is clean, free of any marks or damage 505 pp.