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| 7949911601 | Ulysses S. Grant | An American general and the eighteenth President of the United States (1869-1877). He achieved international fame as the leading Union general in the American Civil War. | 0 | |
| 7949911605 | Thomas Nast | Was a cartoonist for the New York Times and drew many famous political cartoons, including many of Boss Tweed and Tammany Hall. | 1 | |
| 7949911609 | Horace Greeley | He was editor of the New York Tribune .In 1872 the Democratic and Liberal Republican Parties nominated him for president. There was much mudslinging involved in this election. Along with the loss of the election, he lost his job, his wife, and his mind within one month of the election. | 2 | |
| 7949911616 | Rutherford B. Hayes | He was the 19th president of the United States. He was famous for being part of the Corrupt Bargain in which electoral votes were contested in 4 states, most corrupt election in US history. | 3 | |
| 7949911617 | Samuel J. Tilden | He was a New York lawyer who rose to fame by bagging Boss Tweed, a notorious New York political boss. He was nominated for president in 1876 by the Democratic party because of his clean up image. This election was so close that it led to the Compromise of 1877. Even though he had more popular votes, the compromise gave the presidency to the Republicans and allowed the Democrats to stop Reconstruction in the South. | 4 | |
| 7949911623 | James A. Garfield | He was elected to the presidency in 1880. He barely won the popular vote, but won by a huge margin in the electoral college. He was assassinated, so that the Stalwarts could be in power in the government. This brought about reforms in the spoils systems. | 5 | |
| 7949911624 | Charles Guiteau | In 1881, he shot President Garfield in the back in a Washington railroad station. He allegedly committed this crime so that Arthur, a Stalwart, would become president. His attorneys used a plea of insanity, but failed and he was hanged for murder. | 6 | |
| 7949911625 | Chester A. Arthur | Appointed customs collector for the port of New York - corrupt and implemented a heavy spoils system. He was chosen as Garfield's running mate. Garfield won but was shot, so he became the 21st president. | 7 | |
| 7949911628 | Grover Cleveland | He was the Democratic presidential candidate for the 1884 election. The election turned into a mudslinging contest. He won, becoming the first Democratic president since Buchanan. He would lose the 1888 election but return to the presidency by winning the 1892 election. | 8 | |
| 7949911629 | Benjamin Harrison | He was the 23rd President of the United States, elected in 1888. He had previously served as a senator from Indiana. His administration is best known for a series of legislation including the McKinley Tariff and federal spending that reached one billion dollars. | 9 | |
| 7949911630 | Thomas Reed | Republican Speaker of the House in 1888, he gained a reputation for an iron grip over Congress and kept Democrats in line. | 10 | |
| 7949911634 | James B. Weaver | Former Civil War general who ran for president with the Greenback Party (1880) and the Populist Party (1892). | 11 | |
| 7949911637 | Horatio Seymour | A former governor of New York who ran for president (Democrat) against Republican Ulysses S. Grant in the election of 1868. | 12 | |
| 7949911639 | Roscoe Conkling | A politician from New York who served both as a member of the United States House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate. He was the leader of the Stalwart faction of the Republican Party. Was highly against civil service reforms. | 13 | |
| 7949911640 | James G. Blaine | A U.S. Representative, Speaker of the United States House of Representatives, U.S. Senator from Maine, two-time United States Secretary of State, and champion of the Half-Breeds. He was a dominant Republican leader of the post Civil War period, obtaining the 1884 Republican nomination, but lost to Democrat Grover Cleveland. | 14 | |
| 7949911641 | Winfield S. Hancock | A Civil War general who appealed to the South due to his fair treatment of it during Reconstruction and a veteran who had been wounded at Gettysburg, and thus appealed to veterans. he was the 1880 Democratic candidate for president | 15 |
