Conkling
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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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.
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.
From Los Angeles Times
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
“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.
From Los Angeles Times
Roscoe Conkling, Garfield’s biggest political enemy, was a former district attorney in Oneida County and called “the giant of Oneida.”
From Washington Post
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