Reformers in the Republican Party, which dominated national politics in the 1860s and 1870s, had been calling for a ...

Donald Trump is waging war on the civil service in the name of efficiency. But Washington created the modern civil service to ...

Game of Thrones creators David Benioff and D.B. Weiss are producers on Death by Lightning, a Netflix historical show whose ...

A 19th-century presidential assassination was a signature event in helping the U.S. establish a meritocratic system for ...

Hayes was succeeded by President James Garfield ... Worse still for reformers, Garfield's vice president, Chester Alan Arthur, suddenly elevated to the top job, had climbed the ranks of dirty ...

Netflix has unveiled the first official images from Death by Lightning, the upcoming historical drama from David Benioff and ...

President James Garfield, elected in 1880 ... Garfield's successor Chester Arthur in 1883 signed the Pendleton Act, named after Ohio Sen. George Pendleton, who introduced the bill.

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James Garfield and Warren Harding also never visited ... Garfield’s successor, Chester Arthur, came through Nebraska in 1883 on his way to Yellowstone in Wyoming, though some might question ...

While Monday's inauguration ceremony for President-elect Donald Trump is set to break with tradition and take place inside the Capitol due to dangerously low temperatures, it's not the first ...

Garfield at a Washington, D.C. railroad station. Garfield would not survive his injuries, making his vice president, Chester A. Arthur, head of state. On Sept. 20, 1881, then-Vice President Arthur ...