Blaine was made a senator from Maine, the leadership of the House of Representatives passed to Garfield, and he became the Republican candidate for speaker.
Blaine, a fellow Republican senator, was especially marked.
Though votes were often cast for ten names, there were but two real candidates before the convention, Grant and Blaine.
Blaine, the bitterest political enemy of Senator Roscoe Conkling the leader of the New York "stalwarts."
Blaine, and served until the inauguration of President Cleveland in 1885.
