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An 1880
political cartoon
depicts Senator
Roscoe Conkling
over a "presidential puzzle" consisting of some of the potential Republican nominees as pieces of a newly invented
sliding puzzle
. Conkling held significant influence over the party during the
1880 Republican National Convention
and attempted to use that to nominate
Ulysses S. Grant
, only to lose out to "
dark horse
" candidate
James A. Garfield
.
Artist: James Albert Wales; Lithography: Mayer, Merkel, & Ottmann; Restoration:
Jujutacular
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