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Garfield Assassination - The Pendleton Act and the Death of the Spoils System

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Alex Calder explores how James Garfield's 1881 assassination exposed the corrupt spoils system and sparked reform. Unexpectedly, Chester Arthur—a former machine politician—signed the landmark Pendleton Act, establishing merit-based federal hiring and dismantling patronage culture that had dominated American government.

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