Conkling
Americannoun
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One man, Garfield, has chosen virtue; another, Conkling, has chosen corruption; the third, Guiteau, has no real choice in the matter but keeps an audience teetering between pity and revulsion.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 6, 2025
Shea Whigham is New York senator and power broker Roscoe Conkling, Garfield’s moral opposite, and the series’ villain, if you excuse Guiteau as mentally ill.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 6, 2025
Conkling told the Anchorage Daily News he knew little about the situation and couldn’t say how many officers were being investigated.
From Seattle Times • Jul. 13, 2022
Among those who served on its advisory board were Anna Julia Cooper, Roscoe Conkling Bruce, Francis Grimke and Mary Church Terrell — “rather stalwart names in Black Washington’s elite,” Jones said.
From Washington Post • Feb. 12, 2022
During President Grant’s administration, Arthur served as Collector of Customs at the Port in New York, a political appointment arranged by Roscoe Conkling.
From "Ambushed!" by Gail Jarrow
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