James G. Blaine (1830-1893) was born in West Brownsville, Pennsylvania, and died in Washington, D.C. He was a Republican politician who served in the U.S. House of Representatives (1863-1876) and the U.S. Senate (1876-1881). In 1884, he secured the Republican presidential nomination but lost the election to the Democratic candidate, Grover Cleveland.

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