Arthur, Chester (Administration)

THE ARTHUR administration's most lasting legislative legacy is undoubtedly the Pendleton Act of 1883. Responding to the assassination of President James Garfield by a deranged office seeker, the Congress passed and Arthur signed legislation creating the first Civil Service ...

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