In 1880, James Garfield traveled to Republican party headquarters in New York for a meeting with the leader of the Stalwart faction of the party, Roscoe Conkling. Garfield’s trip culminated in ...
Reformers in the Republican Party, which dominated national politics in the 1860s and 1870s, had been calling for a ...
Challenges: Rivalries within the Republican Party posed problems for James Garfield. Roscoe Conkling, governor of New York and leader of the Stalwarts, supported the use of state resources to reward ...