Conkling

[kong-kling]

noun

1. Roscoe, 1829–88, U.S. lawyer and politician: senator 1867–81.

Example Sentences

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.

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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.

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Conkling’s right hand, in charge of the New York Customs House — which generated a third of the country’s revenues through import fees — he’s offered the position of vice president to appease Conkling, New York being key to winning the election.

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“He didn’t even have to finish the Abraham Lincoln thing for it to be clear. He was an original, a real talent,” James Conkling, president of Warner Bros.

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Roscoe Conkling, Garfield’s biggest political enemy, was a former district attorney in Oneida County and called “the giant of Oneida.”

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